Robert E. Blankenship

Formerly at: Departments of Biology and Chemistry

Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, Missouri 63130

USA

Current Address: 3536 S. Kachina Dr.

Tempe, Arizona 85282 USA

Tel (480) 518-2871

Email: Blankenship@wustl.edu Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nXJkAnAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0879-9489 EDUCATION:

University of California, Berkeley – Ph.D. in Chemistry, 1975 Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, Nebraska – B.S. in Chemistry with distinction, 1970

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

7/19–Present – Lucille P. Markey Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Emeritus, Departments of Biology and Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO

7/06–7/19 – Lucille P. Markey Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Departments of Biology and Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO

7/08–7/19 – Secondary Faculty Appointment, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University, St. Louis, MO

7/06–Present – Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Emeritus, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

7/02–6/06 – Chair, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

7/88–6/06 – Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 7/85–6/88 – Associate Professor of Chemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 7/79–6/85 – Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Amherst College, Amherst, MA 6/76–6/79 – Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington,

Seattle, WA with Prof. William Parson 8/75–12/75 – Assistant Professor of Chemistry, American University of Beirut, Beirut,

Lebanon 1/75–7/75 & 1/76–5/76 – Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley Lab., Berkeley, CA, with

Prof. Kenneth Sauer 6/70–12/74 – Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry, University of California,

Berkeley, CA, Prof. Kenneth Sauer, Advisor

LEADERSHIP POSITIONS

Director, Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center (PARC), a DOE Energy Frontier Research Center, Washington University in St. Louis, 2009–2018

Chair, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, 2002–2006 President, International Society for Photosynthesis Research, 2001–2004 Panel Manager, USDA Competitive Research Grants, Photosynthesis and Respiration

Program, 1996 Director, Center for the Study of Early Events in Photosynthesis, Arizona State University,

1988–1991 Student Body President, Nebraska Wesleyan University, 1969–1970

INVITED LECTURES/CHAIRMANSHIPS (2000-2019) Invited Speaker, Conference on Solar Energy to Biomass 2020: Optimization of Light Energy

Conversion in Plants and Microalgae, Porto, Portugal, February 11-14, 2020. Invited Speaker, John Lawrence Seminar Series in Biosciences, Lawrence Berkeley

Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, October 1, 2019. Session Chair and Discussion Leader, Gordon Research Conference on Photosynthesis.

Newry, ME, July 21-26, 2019. Invited Speaker, Carl Sagan Workshop, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, July 15-19, 2019. Keynote Lecture, 16th International Symposium on Phototrophic Prokaryotes, Vancouver,

BC, August 5-8, 2018. Plenary Lecture, Western US Photosynthesis Conference, Biosphere 2, Oracle, AZ, January 4-

7, 2018. Session Chair and Discussion Leader, Gordon Research Conference on Photosynthesis.

Newry, ME, July 16-21, 2017. Plenary Lecture, 13th International Conference on Tetrapyrrole Photoreceptors of

Photosynthetic Organisms. Chicago, IL, July 9-13, 2017. Plenary Lecture, NASA Astrobiology Science Conference, Mesa, AZ, April 24-28, 2017. Invited Seminar, Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, University of Toronto,

Missisauga, Toronto, Canada, March 22, 2017. Invited Seminar, Department of Biology, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, February 3,

2017. Invited Seminar, Department of Microbiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, November

3, 2016. Session Chair/Discussion Leader, 17th International Congress on Photosynthesis Research,

Maastrict, The Netherlands, August 7-12, 2016. Keynote Lecture, International Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting Conference, Egmond aan

Zee, The Netherlands, August 4-7, 2016. Invited Lecture, Gordon Research Conference on Tetrapyrroles, Newport, RI, July 17-22,

2016. Invited Speaker/Session Organizer, 38th Meeting of the American Society for Photobiology,

Tampa, FL, May 21-26, 2016. Session Chair/Discussion Leader, 12th Workshop on Cyanobacteria, Tempe, AZ May 19-22,

2016.

Invited Speaker, 11th Annual Harvard Plant Biology Symposium, Cambridge, MA, May 2-3, 2016.

Invited Speaker, Pacifichem: The International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, HI, December 15-20, 2015.

Award Lecture, American Chemical Society Regional Meeting, St. Joseph, MO, October 22, 2015.

Session Chair/Discussion Leader/Session Organizer, Astrobiology Science Conference, Chicago, IL, June 15-19, 2015.

Invited Speaker, Workshop on Coherent Energy Transport and Optimization in Photosynthesis, Singapore, May 1-3, 2015.

Invited Speaker, Agouron Institute Conference on The Sulfur Cycle, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA October 26-30, 2014.

Keynote Lecture, Michigan State University Plant Research Laboratory Retreat, Kalamazoo, MI, October 19, 2014.

Invited Seminar, Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, October 3, 2014.

Session Chair/Discussion Leader, Gordon Research Conference on Photosynthesis, Mount Snow VT, August 10-15, 2014.

Invited Seminar, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, June 2, 2014.

Schulich Lecture in Chemistry, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, May 27, 2014.

Invited Seminar, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, University of Nagoya, Nagoya, Japan, March 28, 2014.

Invited Speaker, 94th Spring Annual Meeting, Chemical Society of Japan, Nagoya, Japan, March 27-30, 2014.

Invited Speaker, 2nd International Symposium of Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo, Japan, March 24-26, 2014.

Arnon Lecture, University of California, Berkeley, CA, March 5, 2014. Invited Seminar, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, CA, February 18,

2014. Invited Speaker, Workshop on Light-Harvesting Antennas, Toronto, Canada, January 25-26,

2014. Invited Speaker, Workshop on Neutron Science, San Diego, CA, January 18-20, 2014. Invited Speaker, Krasnovsky Memorial Symposium, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow,

Russia, October 10-11, 2013 Invited Lecture, Bakh Institute of Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow,

Russia, October 9, 2013. Milkman Lecture, Marine Biology Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, July 6, 2013. Invited Lecturer, NASA Astrobiology Summer School, Santander, Spain, June 24-28, 2013. Invited Speaker, Symposium on Redesigning Photosynthesis – Identifying Opportunities and

Novel Ideas, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, May 13-16, 2013. Plenary Lecture, Eastern US Photosynthesis Conference, Woods Hole, MA, April 12-14,

2013. Invited Seminar, Department of Chemistry, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, April 10, 2013. Invited Seminar, Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO, March 27, 2013.

Invited Seminar, ASU SkySong Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, February 21, 2013.

Invited Seminar, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, February 21, 2013.

Invited Seminar, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Texas, Austin, Austin, TX, February 1, 2013.

Invited Seminar, Department of Biology, University of South Bohemia, Budweis, Czech Republic, December 18, 2012.

Invited Speaker, Birthday Symposium for Rienk van Grondelle, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 6-7, 2012.

Invited Seminar, Department of Biology, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK, December 5, 2012.

Invited Speaker, Royal Society Meeting on Bioenergetics and the Major Evolutionary Transitions, Kavli Royal Society Centre, Chicheley Hall, Buckinghamshire, UK, November 14-15, 2012.

Invited Seminar, Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, November 22, 2012.

Invited Speaker, European Solar Fuels Meeting, Glasgow, UK, October 29-31, 2012. Invited Speaker, European Bioenergetics Conference, Freiberg, Germany, September 14-20,

2012. Invited Speaker, International Society of Microbial Ecology Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark,

August 19-24, 2012. Invited Symposium Speaker, Protein Society Meeting, San Diego, CA, August 5-6, 2012. Invited Speaker, Gordon Research Conference on Tetrapyrroles, Newport, RI, July 22-27,

2012. Invited Speaker, 36th Meeting of the American Society for Photobiology, Toronto, Canada,

June 23-27, 2012. Invited Seminar, Department of Chemistry, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE, April

26, 2012. Invited Speaker/Session Organizer, Astrobiology Science Conference, Atlanta, GA, April 16-

20, 2012. Invited Seminar, Department of Microbiology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL,

April 13, 2012. Invited Speaker, 56th Annual Biophysical Society Meeting, San Diego, CA, February 25-29,

2012. Invited Speaker, Conference on Solar Fuels, Science, Engineering and Policy, University of

North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, January 11-12, 2012. Invited Speaker, NSF Workshop on Algae, Washington, DC, November 21, 2011. Invited Seminar, Department of Biology, Missouri University of Science and Technology,

Rolla, November 14, 2011. Invited Seminar, Departments of Chemistry and Microbiology, University of British

Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 13, 2011. Invited Speaker, American Society for Plant Biology Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, August 10,

2011. Invited Speaker, International Conference on Photosynthetic Sustainability, Baku,

Azerbaijan, July 27, 2011.

Invited Speaker, DOE Conference on Neutron Science, Washington, DC, May 10, 2011. Invited Speaker, Light Harvesting Conference, Banz, Germany, April 12, 2011. Invited Seminar, Department of Physics, City University of New York, New York, April 7,

2011. Invited Seminar, University of Colorado Biophysics Program, March 16, 2011. Invited Speaker, Biophysical Evening, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO,

February 8, 2011. Invited Speaker, Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research Center, Evanston, IL, January

6, 2011. Invited Speaker, National Astrobiology Institute Workshop on Evolution, Online, November

9, 2010. Invited Speaker, Workshop on Anaerobic Phototrophic Ecosystems, Ancient and Modern,

sponsored by NASA Astrobiology Institute, the Agouron Institute, and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Green Lake, NY, October 12, 2010.

Invited Speaker, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Workshop on Neutron Scattering, September 16, 2010.

Invited Symposium Speaker, 12th International Congress on Photosynthesis, Beijing, China, August 25, 2010.

Invited Symposium Speaker, International Society for Plant Biotechnology Meeting, St. Louis, MO, June 7, 2010.

Invited Lecturer, University of Southern California course on Advanced Microbial Physiology, April 12, 2010.

Invited Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Biology, April 22, 2010. Invited Speaker, University of California, Los Angeles, Workshop on Dating Early Events in

Earth History, March 18, 2010. Invited Speaker, Symposium in Honor of Daniel Arnon, Asilomar, CA, January 8, 2010. Keynote Speaker, Midwest Photosynthesis Conference, Turkey Run, IN, November 13, 2009. Invited Speaker, Agouron Institute Nitrogen Meeting, Scottsdale, AZ, October 15, 2009. Invited Seminar, Department of Biology, University of Missouri, St. Louis, October 6, 2009. Invited Seminar, Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO,

September 14, 2009. Invited Symposium Speaker, International Symposium on Phototrophic Prokaryotes,

Montreal, CA, August 10, 2009. Plenary Lecture, International Conference on Tetrapyrrole Photoreceptors of

Photosynthetic Organisms, Asilomar, CA, July 27, 2009. Invited Speaker, DOE Conference on Energy for the 21st Century, Santa Fe, NM, May 20,

2009. Invited Seminar, Department of Chemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, May 13,

2009. Invited Speaker, Aspen Institute, April 4, 2009. Invited Speaker, Symposium at Brown University in Honor of Sam Beale, March 27, 2009. Invited Lecture, Light Harvesting Symposium, Banz, Germany, March 11, 2009. Invited Lecture, National Association of Biology Teachers Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN,

October 16, 2008. Invited Seminar, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia,

August 8, 2008.

Invited Seminar, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, August 6, 2008.

Session Chair and Discussion Leader, Gordon Research Conference on Photosynthesis, South Hadley, MA, June 23, 2008.

Invited Speaker, Gordon Research Conference on Iron-Sulfur Proteins, New London, NH, June 10, 2008.

Invited Speaker, DOE Meeting on Solar Photochemistry, Wintergreen Resort, VA, June 2, 2008.

Invited Seminar, Department of Biology, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, April 16, 2008.

Ernest C. Pollard Lecture, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Penn State University, University Park, PA, April 14, 2008.

Invited Speaker, Conference on Cyanobacteria in the Lunar Environment, NASA Ames, January 28, 2008.

Invited Seminar, Department of Chemistry, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, November 9, 2007.

Plenary Lecture, 14th International Congress on Photosynthesis, Glasgow, UK, July 27, 2007. Invited Speaker, American Chemical Society Symposium on Solar Energy, St. Louis Science

Center, May 29, 2007. Invited Seminar, Thermal Biology Institute, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, May 7,

2007 Invited Seminar, Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,

Champaign, IL, April 13, 2007. Invited Seminar, Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN,

April 6, 2007. Invited Seminar, Department of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, April 5,

2007. Invited Speaker, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics Washington University in St.

Louis, St. Louis, MO, April 3, 2007. Invited Seminars, Departments of Biology and Chemistry, Lafayette College, Easton, PA,

March 26, 2007. Invited Speaker, Conference on Energy Transfer: from the Nanoscale to the Macroscale,

sponsored by International Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter, Santa Fe, NM, March 12, 2007.

Invited Symposium Speaker, 15th International Nitrogen Fixation Congress, Cape Town, South Africa, January 25, 2007.

Invited Seminar, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, November 1, 2006.

Keynote Speaker, Midwest US Photosynthesis Conference, Turkey Run, IN, October 29, 2006.

Invited Symposium Speaker, International Symposium on Phototrophic Prokaryotes, Pau, France, August 30, 2006.

Session Chair, Discussion Leader and After Dinner Speaker, Gordon Research Conference on Photosynthesis, Smithfield, RI, July 3-7, 2006.

Invited Seminar, Department of Geosciences, CalTech, April 24, 2006. Invited Speaker, Agouron Institute Oxygen Meeting, Santa Fe, NM, April 6, 2006.

Invited Speaker, Conference on Evolution of Aquatic Photoautotrophs, Rutgers University, January 11, 2006.

Invited Speaker, Western US Photosynthesis Conference, Asilomar, CA, January 8, 2006. Invited Seminar, Departments of Biology and Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis,

November 29, 2005. Invited Symposium Speaker, Endosymbiosis Meeting, Hamburg, Germany, October 6, 2005. Invited Symposium Speaker, American Society of Plant Biology Meeting, Seattle, WA, July

17, 2005. Invited Symposium Speaker, Molecular Biology and Evolution Conference, Aukland, NZ, June

20, 2005. Invited Seminar, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, December 14,

2004. Invited Symposium Speaker, American Geophysical Union Conference, San Francisco, CA

December 15, 2004. Invited Seminar, Department of Biology, Indiana University, October 18, 2004. Invited Speaker, Agouron Geobiology Symposium, Catalina, CA, July 17, 2004. Invited Symposium Speaker, Chemical Biophysics Symposium, University of Toronto, March

20, 2004. Invited Seminar, Department of Biology, McMaster University, Canada, March 16, 2004. Invited Seminar, Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA

October 17, 2003. Invited Seminar, Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, October 14, 2003. Invited Plenary Speaker, International Symposium on Phototrophic Prokaryotes, Tokyo,

Japan, August 28, 2003. Invited Speaker, Gordon Research Conference on Photosynthesis, Roger Williams

University, Bristol, RI, June 23, 2003. Invited Seminar, Department of Biology, University of Girona, Spain, June 13, 2003. Invited Symposium Speaker, American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting,

Washington, DC, May 19, 2003. Invited Keynote Speaker, Eastern Photosynthesis Conference, Marine Biology Laboratory,

Woods Hole, MA, April 11, 2003. Invited Seminar, Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, April 10, 2003. Session Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Metals in Biology, Ventura, CA, February 3,

2003. Invited Symposium Speaker, Western Photosynthesis Conference, Asilomar, CA, January 5,

2003. Invited Seminar, Department of Physics, City University of New York, October 21, 2002. Invited Symposium Speaker, 151st Ordinary Meeting of the Society for General

Microbiology, Loughborough, UK, September 19, 2002. Invited Symposium Speaker, 17th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education, Bellingham,

WA, July 29, 2002. Invited Symposium Speaker, Novartis Foundation/Royal Society Discussion Meeting on the

Molecular Evolution of Photosynthesis and Respiration, London, UK, June 29, 2002. Invited Discussion Leader, Gordon Research Conference on Photosynthesis, Bryant

University, June 17, 2002. Invited Speaker, Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, June 7, 2002.

Invited Speaker, Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, May 16, 2002.

Invited Speaker, Joint China/UK Symposium on Membrane Proteins, Beijing, China, May 13, 2002.

Invited Symposium Speaker, EMBO Workshop on Green and Heliobacteria, Passau, Germany, April 20, 2002.

Invited Symposium Speaker, 13th Winter Conference of the Inter-American Photochemical Society, Tempe, AZ, January 3, 2002.

Invited Seminar, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, October 23, 2001. Invited Plenary Lecturer, 12th International Congress on Photosynthesis, Brisbane, Australia,

August 20, 2001. Invited Speaker, Light Harvesting 2001, Surfer’s Paradise, Australia, August 16, 2001. Invited Speaker and Session Chair, Gerald Babcock Memorial Symposium, Michigan State

University, June 1, 2001. Invited Symposium Speaker, 13th International Congress on Photobiology, San Francisco, CA

July 2, 2000. Invited Session Chair and Discussion Leader, Gordon Research Conference on

Photosynthesis, Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, NH, June 19, 2000. Invited Speaker, W W. Parson Tribute Symposium, Rehovot, Israel, April 18, 2000. Invited Speaker And Session Chair, 9th Western Photosynthesis Conference, Asilomar, CA,

January 7, 2000. Invited Speaker, Information Exchange Seminar on Photoconversion and Photosynthesis,

Okazaki, japan, November 16, 1999. Invited Speaker, Retirement Symposium for Govindjee, University of Illinois, Urbana-

Champaign, October 14, 1999. Invited Speaker, Yamaguchi University Symposium on Evolutionary Aspects of

Photosynthesis, Fairbanks, AK, August 11, 1999. Invited Seminar, Biochemistry Department, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, June 3,

1999. Invited Seminar, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University,

Canberra, Australia, April 27 and April 28, 1999. Invited Seminar, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, April

23, 1999. Invited Seminar, Institute of Molecular Biosciences, Massey University, Palmerston North,

New Zealand, April 14, 1999. Invited Seminar, Biological Sciences Department, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia,

March 17, 1999. Invited Speaker, Gordon Research Conference on Origin of Life, Ventura, CA, February 22,

1999. Invited Seminars, Department of Chemistry, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan,

November 15 & 16, 1998. Invited Speaker, Asian-Pacific Forum on Science and Technology, Japan Advanced Institute

of Science and Technology, Ishikawa, Japan, November 11, 1998. Discussion Leader, XIth International Congress on Photosynthesis, Budapest, Hungary,

August 19, 1998.

Invited Speaker, International Workshop on Light-Harvesting Systems, Tata, Hungary, August 15, 1998.

Invited Symposium Speaker, 10th European Bioenergetics Conference, Göteborg, Sweden, June 28, 1998.

Invited Speaker, NASA Workshop on Life: From Local Origins to Global Persistence, New England Conference Center, June 9, 1998.

Invited Symposium Speaker, 98th Annual Conference of American Society of Microbiology, Atlanta, GA, May 18, 1998.

Invited Seminars, Department of Biology Bowling Green State University, March 4 & 5, 1998.

Invited Seminar, Chemistry Department, University of Arizona, February 19, 1998. Invited Seminar, Chemistry Department, San Diego State University, February 9, 1998. Invited Speaker and Co-Organizer, Symposium in Honor of Ken Sauer and Mel Klein,

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, January 7, 1998. Invited Seminar, Biology Department, Odense, University, Odense, Denmark, December 11,

1997. Invited Speaker, Sixth Symposium on Chemical Evolution and the Origin and Evolution of

Life, NASA Ames Research Center, Ames, CA, November 18, 1997. Invited Speaker and Co-organizer, US/Ja[pan Seminar on Molecular Organization of

Photosynthetic Antennas, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, November 13, 1997. Session Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Photosynthesis, Plymouth, NH, August 4,

1997. Invited Symposium Speaker, 213th American Chemical Society National Meeting, San

Francisco, CA, April 14, 1997. Invited Speaker NASA/NSF/DOE Interagency Microbial Extremophiles Meeting, Washington

DC, January 21, 1997. Plenary Lecture, DOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory Conference, Estes Park, CO,

February 6, 1996. Keynote Address, Biophysical Society of the Republic of China Second Annual Symposium on

Recent Advances in Biophysics, Kenting, Taiwan, May 6, 1996. Invited Symposium Speaker, 24th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Photobiology,

Atlanta, GA, June 16, 1996. Invited Symposium Speaker, 212th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Orlando,

FL, August 26, 1996 Invited Symposium Speaker, Diversity, Genetics and Physiology of Photosynthetic

Prokaryotes, BIndiana University, October 19, 1996. Invited Seminar, PBRTC, Washington State University, October 25, 1996. Invited Seminar, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los

Angeles, October 1, 1996. Invited Seminar, Department of Chemistry, Northern Arizona University, October 27, 1995. Invited Seminar, Department of Chemistry, Fort Lewis State College, Fort Lewis, CO, October

13, 1995. Invited Talk, European Science Foundation Workshop on Excitation and Electron Transfer in

Homodimeric Reaction Centers of Green Sulfur and Heliobacteria, Montpellier, France, August 26, 1995.

Discussion Leader, 10th International Congress on Photosynthesis, Montpellier, France, August 21, 1995.

Invited Seminar, Department of Biology, Kansas State University, April 17, 1995. Invited Seminar, Department of Chemistry, California State University, Long Beach, March

22, 1995. Invited Seminar, Department of Chemistry, California State University, Fullerton, February

16, 1995. Invited Seminar, Department of Chemistry, California State University, Hayward, February 8,

1995. Invited Seminar, Department of Biology, Kyoto University, Japan, December 5, 1994. Invited Symposium Speaker, Symposium on Fe-S Type of Photosynthetic Reaction Centers,

Kanazawa, Japan, December 2, 1994. Invited Seminar, Department of Biology, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan, December 1,

1994. Howard Hughes Medical Institute Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Nebraska Wesleyan

University, November 10-11, 1994. Invited Symposium Speaker and Session Chair, VIII International Symposium on

Phototrophic Prokaryotes, Urbino, Italy, September 13, 1994. Invited Symposium Speaker, 129th Meeting, Society for General Microbiology and

Nederlandse Vereniging voor Microbiologie, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, September 10, 1994.

Invited Speaker, Gordon Research Conference on Photosynthesis, Newport, RI, August 25, 1994.

Invited Speaker, Conference of Structure, Function and Biogenesis of Chlorophyll-Protein Complexes: A Symposium in honor of J. Philip Thornber, University of California, Los Angeles, August 4, 1994.

Invited Symposium Speaker and Session Chair, 22nd Annual Meeting, American Society for Photobiology, Scottsdale, AZ, June 26, 1994.

Invited Symposium Speaker, Fifth Exobiology Symposium and Mars Workshop, NASA Ames Research Center, Ames, CA, April 26, 1994.

Invited Overview Talk, Western US Photosynthesis Conference, Asilomar, CA, January 4, 1994.

Invited Symposium Speaker, Second Nordic Conference on Photosynthesis, Oslo, Norway, November 5, 1993.

Invited Symposium Speaker, EMBO Workshop on Green and Heliobacteria, Nyborg, Denmark, August 17, 1993.

Invited Speaker, Gordon Research Conference on Photosynthesis, New Hampton NH, August 3, 1993.

Invited Seminar, Department of Biochemistry, Ohio State University, May 25, 1993. Invited Speaker, Eastern US Photosynthesis Conference, Woods Hole, MA, April 17, 1993. Invited Speaker, Western US Photosynthesis Conference, Asilomar, CA, January 13, 1993. Invited Speaker, Meeting on Evolution of Photosynthetic Systems, Okazaki, Japan,

September 6, 1992. Invited Speaker, Inorganic Biochemistry Summer Workshop, University of Georgia, August

10, 1992.

Invited Symposium Speaker, International Conference on Photosynthetic Antennas, Freising, Germany, March 31, 1992.

Invited Seminar, Department of Biophysics, State University of Leiden, The Netherlands, September 10, 1991.

Invited Seminar, Laboratorium voor Microbiologie, Rijkuniversity Gent, Belgium, September 6, 1991.

Invited Symposium Speaker, Fourth Congress of the European Society for Photobiology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2, 1991.

Invited Symposium Speaker, VII International Symposium on Photosynthetic Prokaryotes, Amherst, MA, July 22, 1991.

Invited Seminar, Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, February 1, 1991. Plenary Lecturer, Workshop on Bioinorganic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology,

Madras, India, December 10, 1990. Invited Seminar, Department of Chemistry, Texas Tech University, December 4, 1990. Invited Speaker, Greater Phoenix Mensa Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, November 24, 1990. Invited Seminar, Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska, October 25, 1990. Keynote Speaker, Southeast Nebraska Science Educator’s Conference, Crete, NE, October

25, 1990. Invited Seminar, Department of Chemistry, Nebraska Wesleyan University, October 24,

1990. Invited Speaker, National Academy of Sciences—Academy of Sciences USSR Workshop on

Photosynthesis, Woods Hole, MA, September 17, 1990. Invited Speaker, Conference on Molecular Biology and the Origin of Life, Berkeley, CA, July

23, 1990. Invited Symposium Speaker, Fourth NASA Symposium on Chemical Evolution and the Origin

and Evolution of Life. Ames, CA July 23, 1990. Invited Symposium Speaker, Joint Soviet-Indian Symposium on Regulation of

Photosynthesis, Puschino, USSR, May 21, 1990. Invited Symposium Speaker, 51st Annual Biology Colloquium, Oregon State University, April

25, 1990. Invited Lecture, McKnight Foundation, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, March 29,

1990. Invited Speaker, US/Japan Binational Seminar on structure and Function of Photosynthetic

Reaction Centers, Honolulu, HI, March 6, 1990. Invited Symposium Speaker, VIIth International Congress on Photosynthesis, Stockholm,

Sweden, August 7, 1989. Invited Speaker, Conference on Molecular Models, Origins and Evolution of Photosynthesis,

Stockholm, Sweden, August 12, 1989. Invited Seminar, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, April 24, 1989. Invited Speaker, Third Annual Penn State Symposium in Plant Physiology, Penn State

University, May 20, 1988. Invited Symposium Speaker, 32nd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society, Phoenix, AZ

March 1, 1988. Invited Lecture NATO Conference on Structure of Bacterial Reaction Centers, Cadarache,

France, September 21, 1987. Invited Seminar, Department of Biochemistry, University of Arizona, September 11, 1987.

Invited Seminar, Department of Chemistry, University of New Mexico, September 4, 1987. Invited Lecture, EMBO Workshop on Green and Heliobacteria, Nyborg, Denmark, August 20,

1987. Invited Speaker, Gordon Research Conference on Photosynthesis, Colby-Sawyer College,

NH, July 28, 1987. Invited Symposium Speaker, 14th Annual Meeting, American Society for Photobiology, Los

Angeles, CA, June 23, 1986. Invited Seminar, RIKEN Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Wako, Saitama, Japan,

June 2, 1986. Invited Seminar, Department of Biology, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, May 30, 1986. Invited Seminar, Department of Biology, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, May 29, 1986. Invited Seminar, National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Japan, May 27, 1986. Invited Seminar, Department of Biology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, May 23, 1986. Invited Seminar, Department of Chemistry, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, May 21, 1986. Invited Seminar, Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, March 5, 1986. Invited Seminar, McKnight Foundation Lecture, University of California, Berkeley, February

6, 1986. Invited Lecture, Gordon Research Conference on Photosynthesis, New London, NH, July 29,

1985. Invited Seminar, Department of Biology, Yale University, April 15, 1985. Invited Seminar, University of Massachusetts, Boston, April 10, 1985. Invited Lecture, Eastern US Photosynthesis Conference, Woods Hole, MA, March 30, 1985.

SERVICE TO PROFESSION: Conferences Organized

Co-organizer, Midwest/Southeast Photosynthesis Conference, Turkey Run, IN, 2018 Co-organizer, Midwest/Southeast Photosynthesis Conference, Turkey Run, IN, 2017 Co-organizer, 16th International Congress on Photosynthesis Research, St. Louis, MO, 2013 Co-organizer, Conference on Photosynthetic Light Harvesting Systems, St. Louis, MO, 2013 Co-organizer, Workshop on Cyanobacteria, St. Louis, MO, 2013 Co-organizer, DOE Workshop on Efficiency of Photosynthesis, Albuquerque, NM, 2009 Co-organizer, Conference on Photosynthetic Antennas, Drymen, UK, 2007 Co-organizer, Midwest/Southeast Photosynthesis Conference, Turkey Run, IN, 2007 Co-organizer, Agouron Institute Conference on Oxygen, Santa Fe, NM, 2006 Co-organizer, Conference on Photosynthetic Antennas, Montreal, Canada, 2004 Co-organizer, Astrobiology Science Conference, Tempe, AZ, 2003 Co-organizer, US-Australia Joint Workshop on Artificial Photosynthesis, Sydney, Australia,

2003 Co-organizer, Western Regional Photosynthesis Conference, Asilomar, CA, 2003 Co-organizer, Conference on Photosynthetic Antennas, Queensland, Australia, 2001 Co-organizer, Sauer/Klein Reunion Symposium, Berkeley, CA, 1998 Organizer, US-Japan Symposium on Photosynthetic Antennas, Kona, Hawaii, 1997 Vice Chairman (1990) and Chairman (1991) of Gordon Research Conferences on

Photosynthesis Organizer, First Eastern U.S. Photosynthesis Conference, Woods Hole, MA, 1984

Books and Editorial Service Section Editor, Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry, 3rd Ed., 2019–present Associate Editor, Photosynthesis Research, 2018–present Author, Molecular Mechanisms of Photosynthesis 2nd Edition, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK,

2014 Editorial Board, Biochemistry, 2001–present Consulting Editor, Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration, 2009–present Associate Editor, Frontiers in Microbial Physiology and Metabolism, 2011–2017 Author, Molecular Mechanisms of Photosynthesis, Blackwell Science, Oxford, UK, 2002 Editor, with M. Madigan and C. Bauer, Anoxygenic Photosynthetic Bacteria, Kluwer

Academic Publishing, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1995 Editorial Board, International Journal of Astrobiology, 2001–2011 Editorial Board, Current Chemical Biology, 2007–2011 Editorial Board, Biophysical Journal, 2000–2003 Editor-in-Chief, Photosynthesis Research, 1988–1999 Consulting Editor, Advances in Photosynthesis, 1991–1998 Editorial Board, Photosynthesis Research, 1985–1988

Grant Review Panels

Grant Review Panel Member, NASA Exobiology Program, 2016 Grant Review Panel Member, DOE Photosynthetic Systems and Physical Biosciences

Programs, 2015 Grant Review Panel Member, DOE Energy Biosciences Program, 2008 Grant Review Panel Member, NSF Prokaryotic Molecular Biology Program, 2004–2008 Grant Review Panel Member, NSF Microbial Genome Sequencing Program, 2005 Panel Manager, USDA Competitive Research Grants, Photosynthesis and Respiration

Program, 1996 Grant Review Panel Member, NASA Exobiology Program, 1994–1998 Grant Review Panel Member, NSF Molecular Biophysics Program, 1991–1994 Grant Review Panel Member, DOE Energy Biosciences Program, 1988 NIH Special Study Section Member, Sequencers, etc., 1987 Grant Review Panel Member, USDA Competitive Research Grants on Photosynthesis, 1985,

1986, 1989 Advisory Service

Scientific Advisory Board, DOE Energy Frontier Research Center for Bioinspired Light-Escalated Chemistry (BioLEC), Princeton University, 2018–present; Chair 2018–present

Scientific Advisory Board, DOE Energy Frontier Research Center for Biological Electron Transfer and Catalysis, Montana State University, 2014–present; Chair 2018-present

Scientific Advisory Board, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research program in Biology, Energy, Technology, 2014–2018; Chair 2014–2018

Committee of Visitors, Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences (CSGB) Division, DOE Basic Energy Sciences, Subpanel Lead on Photochemistry and Biochemistry, 2017

Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 2015–present

Site Review Team Member, U.S. Department of Energy Solar Photochemistry and Photosynthesis, Argonne National Laboratory, 2013

Council for Chemical and Biochemical Sciences, DOE Basic Energy Sciences, 2008–2015; Chair 2014–2015

Scientific Advisory Board, Centre for Low-Dimensional Chemistry, Univ. of Sheffield, UK, 2012–2015

External Program Review, Louisiana Board of Regents review of nanotechnology at Louisiana Tech University, 2003, 2012

Scientific Advisory Board, Ecosystems and Networks Integrated with Genes and Molecular Assemblies, (ENIGMA), Lawrence Berkeley Lab, 2010–2011

Proposal Review Panel, DOE Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT), Albuquerque, NM, 2008–2013

Scientific Advisory Board (Chair), Molecular Assemblies Genes, and Genomics Integrated Efficiently (MAGGIE), Lawrence Berkeley Lab, 2008–2009

Committee of Visitors, Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences (CSGB) Division, DOE Basic Energy Sciences, 2008

Scientific Advisory Board, Center for Photochemical Sciences, Bowling Green State University, 2001–2013

External Program Review, University of Washington, Astrobiology Program, 2005 International Scientific Committee for the Symposia on Phototrophic Prokaryotes, Executive

Committee, 2000–2009 Director’s Division Review Panel Member, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley

Laboratory, 2000 Swedish Natural Science Research Council Expert Committee in Biophysical Chemistry, 1992 Site Review Team Member, Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, 1989, 1992 Site Review Team Member, Medical Free Electron Laser Program, Office of Naval Research,

1990 On-camera participant and technical consultant for film Photosynthesis: Life Energy,

produced by the National Geographic Society, 1983 Society Service

President, International Society for Photosynthesis Research, 2001–2004 Executive Committee, International Society for Photosynthesis Research, 1995–2001 Local Arrangements Chairman, Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, 1988

AWARDS:

Midwest Award, American Chemical Society, 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award, Rebeiz Foundation for Basic Research, 2013 Paper of the Year, Rebeiz Foundation for Basic Research, 2013 Communications Award, International Society of Photosynthesis Research, 2013 Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology, 2012 Charles F. Kettering Award for Excellence in Photosynthesis, American Society of Plant

Biologists, 2008 Beatrice NE Educational Foundation Hall of Fame, 2008 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2004 Founding Fellow, Arizona Arts, Sciences and Technology Academy, 2004

Graduate Mentoring Award, Arizona State University, 1998 Graduate College Distinguished Research Award, Arizona State University, 1992 Alumni Achievement Award, Nebraska Wesleyan University, 1991 Who’s Who in the World Who’s Who in America Who’s Who in Science and Engineering Who's Who in American Education Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers National Science Foundation National Needs Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1977

SOCIETIES:

International Society for Photosynthesis Research American Association for the Advancement of Science American Society for Microbiology American Society of Plant Biologists International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life Union of Concerned Scientists

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Excitation and electron transfer in photosynthetic systems Origin and early evolution of photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation Metalloenzymes involved in electron transfer and oxidative stress processes

UNIVERSITY SERVICE: Washington University Biology Department Faculty Search Committee, Chair, 2018-2019 Chemistry Department Faculty Search Committee, 2016-2017 Review Committee, International Center For Advanced Renewable Energy & Sustainability

(I-Cares), 2016 Research Working Group, 2015–present Advisory Committee, Washington University Prison Education Project, 2014–2015 Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences Quality Assessment Committee, 2014 Faculty Senate Council, 2013–2016 Faculty Senate Council Advisory Committee on Tenure & Academic Freedom, 2013–2016 Director, Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center (PARC), a DOE Energy Frontier Research

Center, 2009–2018 Biology Department Faculty Search Committee, Chair, 2011–2012 Faculty Advisor, Washington University iGEM Team, 2009 College of Arts and Sciences Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2008–2011 I-CARES Faculty Search Committee, 2008–2011 Chemistry Department Faculty Search Committee, 2010–2011 Chemistry Graduate Studies Committee, 2006–2016 Chemistry Department Chair Search Liaison Committee, 2009 Committee on Education of Undergraduates in the Life Sciences, 2008–2010 Biology Department Chair Search Committee, 2008–2009 Biochemistry Faculty Search Committee, Co-Chair, 2007–2008

Biochemistry Program Revision Committee, Chair, 2006–2007 Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (DBBS) Graduate Admissions Committee,

2007–2008 Florence Moog Scholarship Selection Committee, 2006–2008 Bio-Energy Faculty Search Committee, 2006–2007 Arizona State University Chair, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 2002–2006 School of Life Sciences Director Search Committee, 2004–2005 Dean's Strategic Planning and Academic Resources Advisory Council, 2003–2006 Molecular and Cellular Biology Executive Committee, 1994–1996; 1999–2003 Life Science Reorganization Committee, 2002–2003 Goldwater Scholarship Selection Committee, 1999–2006 Interim Director, Cancer Research Institute, 2004 Director, Bio and Molecular Photonics Initiative, 1999–2002 Biomedical Strategic Planning Committee, 1998–2001 ASU Main Campus Strategic Planning Committee, 1998–1999 Chair, Research Investigation Committee, 1998–1999 Founding Director, ASU Center for the Study of Early Events in Photosynthesis, 1988–1991

CITATION STATISTICS Google Scholar (October 2019) All Since 2014 Citations: 30,244 12,835 h-index: 78 43 i10-index: 306 174 Web of Science (October 2019)

Results found: 444

Sum of the Times Cited: 18,629 Sum of Times Cited without self-citations: 16,996

Citing Articles: 11,396 Citing Articles without self-citations: 11,084

Average Citations per Item: 41.96

h-index: 64 PUBLICATIONS: (436 total)

1. Blankenship RE and Sauer K (1974) Manganese in photosynthetic oxygen evolution. Electron paramagnetic resonance study of the environment of Mn in tris-washed chloroplasts. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 357: 252-266. (R)

2. Blankenship RE, Babcock GT and Sauer K (1975) Kinetic study of oxygen evolution

parameters in tris-washed, reactivated chloroplasts. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 387: 165-175. (R)

3. Blankenship RE, Babcock GT, Warden JT and Sauer K (1975) Observation of a new EPR

transient in chloroplasts that may reflect the electron donor to Photosystem II at room temperature. FEBS Letters 51: 287-293. (R)

4. Blankenship RE, McGuire A and Sauer K (1975) Chemically induced dynamic electron

polarization in chloroplasts at room temperature: evidence for triplet state participation in photosynthesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 72: 4943-4947. (R)

5. Warden JT, Blankenship RE and Sauer K (1976) A flash photolysis ESR study of

Photosystem II signal IIvf, the physiological donor to P680+. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 423: 462-478. (R)

6. Babcock GT, Blankenship RE and Sauer K (1976) Reaction kinetics for positive charge

accumulation on the water side of chloroplast Photosystem II. FEBS Letters 61: 286-289. (R)

7. Smith GE, Blankenship RE and Klein MP (1977) Conversion of an E-3 ESR spectrometer

to 1-MHz field modulation. Rev. Sci. Instr. 48: 282-286. (R) 8. Blankenship RE, McGuire A and Sauer K (1977) Rise time of EPR signal IIvf in chloroplast

Photosystem II. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 459: 617-619. (R) 9. Blankenship RE, Schaafsma TJ and Parson WW (1977) Magnetic field effects on radical

pair intermediates in bacterial photosynthesis. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 461: 297-305. (R)

10. Dismukes C, McGuire A, Blankenship RE and Sauer K (1978) Electron spin polarization in

photosynthesis and the mechanism of the electron transfer in Photosystem I: Experimental observations. Biophysical Journal 21: 239-256. Correction 21: 521 (1978). (R)

11. Blankenship RE and Parson WW (1978) The photochemical electron transfer reactions

of photosynthetic bacteria and plants. Annual Review of Biochemistry 47: 635-653. (IR) 12. Parson WW, Schenck CC, Blankenship RE, Holten D, Windsor MW and Shank CV (1978)

Kinetics of photochemical electron transfer reactions in vivo and in vitro. In: Frontiers of Biological Energetics: Electrons to Tissues. PL Dutton, JS Leigh, A Scarpa, Eds. Academic Press, 1: 37-44. (CP)

13. Blankenship RE and Parson WW (1979) Kinetics and thermodynamics of electron

transfer in bacterial reaction centers. In: Topics in Photosynthesis: Photosynthesis in Relation to Model Systems, J. Barber, ed. (Amsterdam: Elsevier) 3: 71-114. (IR)

14. Blankenship RE and Parson WW (1979) The involvement of iron and ubiquinone in

electron transfer reactions mediated by reaction centers from photosynthetic bacteria. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 545: 429-444. (R)

15. Blankenship RE (1981) Chemically induced magnetic polarization in photosynthetic

systems. Accounts of Chemical Research 14: 163-170. (R, IR) 16. Yocum CF, Yerkes CT, Blankenship RE, Sharp RR and Babcock GT (1981) Stoichiometry,

inhibitor sensitivity and organization of manganese associated with photosynthetic oxygen evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 78: 7507-7511. (R)

17. Bunker G, E. Stern EA, Blankenship RE and Parson WW (1982) An X-ray absorption

study of the iron site in bacterial photosynthetic reaction centers. Biophysical Journal 37: 539-551. (R)

18. Schenck CC, Blankenship RE and Parson WW (1982) Radical-pair decay kinetics, triplet yields and delayed fluorescence from bacterial reaction centers. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 680: 44-59. (R)

19. Betti JA, Blankenship RE, Natarajan LV, Dickinson LC and Fuller RC (1982) Antenna

organization and evidence for the function of a new antenna pigment species in the green photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 680: 194-201. (R)

20. Natarajan LV and Blankenship RE (1982) Linear dichroism of the 740 nm absorbing form

of chlorophyll a. Spectroscopy Letters 15: 527-532. (R) 21. Pocinki AG and Blankenship RE (1982) Kinetics of electron transfer in duroquinone-

reconstituted reaction centers from photosynthetic bacteria. FEBS Letters 147: 115-119. (R)

22. Bruce BD, Fuller RC and Blankenship RE (1982) Primary photochemistry in the

facultatively aerobic green photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 79: 6532-6536. (R)

23. Natarajan LV and Blankenship RE (1983) Free energy dependence of the quenching of

chlorophyll a fluorescence by substituted quinones. Photochemistry and Photobiology 37: 329-336. (R)

24. Natarajan LV, Robinson M and Blankenship RE (1983) Linear dichroism of cyanine dyes

in stretched polyvinyl alcohol films: A Physical Chemistry Laboratory Experiment. Journal of Chemical Education 60: 241-243. (R)

25. Natarajan LV, Stein FM, Blankenship RE and Chang R (1983) Linear dichroism and

fluorescence polarization of diphenyl polyenes in stretched polyethylene films. Chemical Physics Letters 95: 525-528. (R)

26. Hale MB, Blankenship RE and Fuller RC (1983) Menaquinone is the sole quinone in the

facultatively aerobic green photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 723: 376-382. (R)

27. Kirmaier C, Holten D, Feick R and Blankenship RE (1983) Picosecond measurements of

the primary photochemical events in reaction centers isolated from the facultative green photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus; Comparison with the Purple Bacterium Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides. FEBS Letters 158: 73-78. (R)

28. Blankenship RE, Feick R, Bruce BD, Kirmaier C, Holten D and Fuller RC (1983) Primary

photochemistry in the facultative green photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 22: 251-266. (R, CP, IR)

29. Photosynthesis: Life Energy. On-camera participant and technical consultant for film produced by the National Geographic Society in association with Joseph Akin (1983). (MM)

30. Natarajan LV, Ricker JE, Blankenship RE and Chang R (1984) Solvent influences on the

singlet quenching of chlorophyll a by 2,5-dimethyl-p-benzoquinone. Photochemistry and Photobiology 39: 301-306. (R)

31. Cho HM, Mancino LJ and Blankenship RE (1984) Light saturation curves and quantum

yields in reaction centers from photosynthetic bacteria. Biophysical Journal 45: 455-461. (R)

32. Mancino LJ, Dean DP and Blankenship RE (1984) Kinetics and thermodynamics of the

P870+QA- ® P870+QB- reaction in isolated reaction centers from the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 764: 46-54. (R)

33. Kirmaier C, Holten D, Mancino LJ and Blankenship RE (1984) Picosecond

photodichroism studies on reaction centers from the green photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 765: 138-146. (R)

34. Fuller RC, Blankenship RE and Feick RG (1984) The molecular topography of the

photochemical membrane system in the green bacterium Chloroflexus. In: Advances in Photosynthesis Research C. Sybesma, ed., III, 377-380. (CP)

35. Blankenship RE, Mancino LJ, Feick R, Fuller RC, Machnicki J, Frank HA, Kirmaier C and

Holten D (1984) Primary photochemistry and pigment composition of reaction centers isolated from the green photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. In: Advances in Photosynthesis Research C. Sybesma, ed., I, 203-206. (CP)

36. Blankenship RE (1984) Book Review of Light Reaction Path of Photosynthesis Fong FK

(Berlin: Springer-Verlag) (1982) Photochemistry and Photobiology 39: 585. (BR) 37. Blankenship RE (1984) Book Review of Photosynthetic Systems: Danks SM, Evans EH

and Whittaker PA (Chichester: John Wiley) (1983) Structure, Function and Assembly. Quarterly Review of Biology 59: 462-463. (BR)

38. Blankenship RE (1984) Primary photochemistry in green photosynthetic bacteria.

Photochemistry and Photobiology 40: 801-806. (IR) 39. Fuller RC, Sprague SG, Gest H and Blankenship RE (1985) A unique photosynthetic

reaction center from Heliobacterium chlorum. FEBS Letters 182: 345-349. (R) 40. Blankenship RE (1985) Electron transport in green photosynthetic bacteria.

Photosynthesis Research 6: 317-335. (IR, R)

41. Blankenship RE and Prince RC (1985) Excited state redox potentials and the Z scheme of

photosynthesis. Trends in Biochemical Sciences 10: 382-383. (R) 42. Prince R, Gest H and Blankenship RE (1985) Thermodynamic properties of the

photochemical reaction center of Heliobacterium chlorum. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 810: 377-384. (R)

43. Blankenship RE (1986) Book Review of Photosynthesis: C. H. Foyer, (New York: John

Wiley) (1984). Photochemistry and Photobiology 43: 357. (BR) 44. Blankenship RE and Fuller RC (1986) Membrane topology and photochemistry of the

green photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. In: Photosynthesis III, Encyclopedia of Plant Physiology New Series, Staehelin LA and Arntzen CJ, eds. (Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag) 19: 390-399. (IR)

45. Kirmaier C, Blankenship RE and Holten D (1986) Formation and decay of radical pair

state P+I- in Chloroflexus aurantiacus reaction centers. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 850: 275-285. (R)

46. Foster JM, Redlinger TE, Blankenship RE and Fuller RC (1986) Oxygen regulation of the

development of the photosynthetic membrane system in Chloroflexus. Journal of Bacteriology 167: 655-659. (R)

47. Becker M, Middendorf D, Woodbury NW, Parson WW and Blankenship RE (1986)

Picosecond electron transfer and stimulated emission in reaction centers of Rhodobacter sphaeroides and Chloroflexus aurantiacus. In: Ultrafast Phenomena, Fleming GR and Siegman AE, eds., Springer-Verlag, 374-378. (CP)

48. Brune DC and Blankenship RE (1987) Light absorption and fluorescence of Bchl c in

chlorosomes from Chloroflexus aurantiacus and an in vitro model. In: Progress in Photosynthesis Research, Biggins J, ed., Nijhoff M, Pub., Dordrecht, I: 419-422. (CP)

49. Redlinger TE, Foster JM, Wynn RM, Knaff DB, Blankenship RE and Fuller RC (1987)

Oxygen regulation of cytochrome c-554 synthesis in Chloroflexus. In: Progress in Photosynthesis Research, Biggins J, ed., Nijhoff, Pub., Dordrecht, 4: 745-748. (CP)

50. Wynn RM, Redlinger TE, Foster JM, Blankenship RE, Fuller RC, Shaw RW and Knaff DB

(1987) Electron-transport chains of phototrophically and chemotrophically grown Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 891: 216-226. (R)

51. Brune DC, Nozawa T and Blankenship RE (1987) Antenna organization in green

photosynthetic bacteria. I. Oligomeric bacteriochlorophyll c as a model for the 740 nm-absorbing bacteriochlorophyll c in Chloroflexus aurantiacus chlorosomes. Biochemistry 26: 8644-8652. (R)

52. Brune DC, King GH, Infosino AI, Steiner T, Thewalt MLW and Blankenship RE (1987)

Antenna organization in green photosynthetic bacteria. II. Excitation transfer in detached and membrane-bound chlorosomes from Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Biochemistry 26: 8652-8658. (R)

53. Nozawa T, Trost JT, Fukada T, Hatano M, McManus JD and Blankenship RE (1987)

Properties of the reaction center of the thermophilic purple photosynthetic bacterium Chromatium tepidum. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 894: 468-476. (R)

54. Blankenship RE, Brune DC, Freeman JM, King GH, McManus JD, Nozawa T, Trost JT and

Wittmershaus BP (1988) Energy trapping and electron transfer in Chloroflexus aurantiacus. In: Green Photosynthetic Bacteria, Olson JM, Ormerod JG, Amesz J, Stackebrandt E and Trüper HG, eds., Plenum Press, New York, 57-68. (CP)

55. Brune DC, Blankenship RE and Seely GR (1988) Fluorescence quantum yields and

lifetimes for bacteriochlorophyll c. Photochemistry and Photobiology 47: 759-763. (R) 56. Wittmershaus BP, Brune DC and Blankenship RE (1988) Energy transfer in Chloroflexus

aurantiacus: Effects of temperature and anaerobic conditions. In: Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting Systems, Scheer H and Schneider S, eds., Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 543-554. (CP)

57. Brune DC, King GH and Blankenship RE (1988) Intermolecular interactions between

bacteriochlorophyll c in in vitro oligomers and in chlorosomes. In: Photosynthetic Light-Harvesting Systems, Scheer H and Schneider S, eds., Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 141-151. (CP)

58. Blankenship RE, Trost JT and Mancino LJ (1988) Properties of reaction centers from the

green photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. In: The Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Center: Structure and Dynamics, Breton J and Vermeglio A, eds., Plenum Press, New York, 119-127. (CP)

59. Trost JT, McManus JD, Freeman JC, Ramakrishna BL and Blankenship RE (1988)

Auracyanin: A blue copper protein from the green photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Biochemistry 27: 7858-7863. (R)

60. Blankenship RE, Brune DC and Wittmershaus BP (1988) Chlorosome antennas in green

photosynthetic bacteria. In: Light-Energy Transduction in Photosynthesis. Higher Plants and Bacterial Models, Stevens SE, Jr. and Bryant DA, eds., Am. Soc. Plant Physiol., Rockville, MD, 32-46. (CP, IR)

61. Meyer TE, Tollin, Cusanovich MA, Freeman JC and Blankenship RE (1989) In vitro

kinetics of reduction of cytochrome c-554 isolated from the reaction center of the green phototrophic bacterium, Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 272: 254-261. (R)

62. Trost JT and Blankenship RE (1989) Isolation of a photoactive photosynthetic reaction

center-core antenna complex from Heliobacillus mobilis. Biochemistry 28: 9898-9904. (R)

63. Mimuro M, Nozawa T, Tamai T, Shimada K, Yamazaki I, Lin S, Knox RS, Wittmershaus

BP, Brune DC and Blankenship RE (1989) Excitation energy flow in chlorosome antennas of green photosynthetic bacteria. Journal of Physical Chemistry 93: 7503-7509. (R)

64. Wang J, Brune DC and Blankenship RE (1990) Effects of oxidants and reductants on

energy transfer efficiencies in green photosynthetic bacteria. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1015: 457-463. (R)

65. Causgrove TP, Brune DC, Blankenship RE and Olson JM (1990) Fluorescence lifetimes of

dimers and higher oligomers of bacteriochlorophyll c from Chlorobium limicola. Photosynthesis Research 25: 1-10. (R)

66. Freeman JC and Blankenship RE (1990) Isolation and characterization of the

membrane-bound cytochrome c-554 from the thermophilic green photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Photosynthesis Research 23: 29-38. (R)

67. Blankenship RE, Wang J, Causgrove TP and Brune DC (1990) Efficiency and kinetics of

energy transfer in chlorosome antennas from green photosynthetic bacteria. In: Current Research in Photosynthesis, Baltscheffsky M, ed., Kluwer Acad. Pub., Dordrecht 2: 17-24. (CP, IR)

68. Becker M, Middendorf D, Nagarajan V, Parson WW and Blankenship RE (1990)

Picosecond absorption studies on photosynthetic reaction centers of Chloroflexus aurantiacus. In: Current Research in Photosynthesis, Baltscheffsky M, ed., Kluwer Acad. Pub. Dordrecht 1: 121-124. (CP)

69. Bittersmann E, Blankenship RE and Woodbury N (1990) Picosecond fluorescence

studies of Rhodopseudomonas viridis. In: Current Research in Photosynthesis, Baltscheffsky M, ed., Kluwer Acad. Pub., Dordrecht 2: 169-172. (CP)

70. Olson JM, Pedersen JP, Causgrove TP, Brune DC and Blankenship RE (1990)

Bacteriochlorophyll c monomers, dimers and higher aggregates in dichloromethane and carbon tetrachloride. In: Current Research in Photosynthesis, Baltscheffsky M, ed., Kluwer Acad. Pub., Dordrecht 2: 37-40. (CP)

71. Trost JT and Blankenship RE (1990) Isolation of a reaction center particle and a small c-

type cytochrome from Heliobacillus mobilis. In: Current Research in Photosynthesis, Baltscheffsky M, ed. (Kluwer Acad. Pub., Dordrecht) 2: 703-706. (CP)

72. Causgrove TP, Brune DC, Wang J, Wittmershaus BP and Blankenship RE (1990) Energy transfer kinetics in whole cells and isolated chlorosomes of green photosynthetic bacteria. Photosynthesis Research 26: 39-48. (R)

73. Blankenship RE (1991) Photosynthesis: The Light Reactions. Chapter in: Plant

Physiology, Taiz L and Zeiger E, eds. (Benjamin Cummings Co.), 179-218. (R, IR) 74. Becker M, Nagarajan V, Middendorf D, Parson WW, Martin JE and Blankenship RE

(1991) Temperature dependence of the initial electron-transfer kinetics in photosynthetic reaction centers of Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1057: 299-312. (R)

75. Meyer TE, Tollin G, Causgrove TP, Cheng P and Blankenship RE (1991) Picosecond decay

kinetics and quantum yield of fluorescence of the photoactive yellow protein from the halophilic purple phototrophic bacterium, Ectothiorhodospira halophila. Biophysical Journal 59: 988-991. (R)

76. Dracheva S, Williams JC, Van Driessche G, Van Beeumen JJ and Blankenship RE (1991)

The primary structure of cytochrome c-554 from the green photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Biochemistry 30: 11451-11458. (R)

77. Alden RG, Lin SH and Blankenship RE (1992) Theory of spectroscopy and energy

transfer of oligomeric pigments in chlorosome antennas of green photosynthetic bacteria. Journal of Luminescence 51: 51-66. (R)

78. McManus JD, Brune DC, Han J, Sanders-Loehr J, Meyer TE, Cusanovich MA, Tollin G and

Blankenship RE (1992) Isolation, characterization and amino acid sequences of auracyanins, blue copper proteins from the green photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Journal of Biological Chemistry 267: 6531-6541. (R)

79. Causgrove TP, Brune DC and Blankenship RE (1992) Förster energy transfer in

chlorosomes of green photosynthetic bacteria. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B 15: 171-179. (R)

80. Trost JT, Brune DC and Blankenship RE (1992) Protein sequences and redox titrations

indicate that the electron acceptors in heliobacteria are similar to Photosystem I. Photosynthesis Research 32: 11-22. (R)

81. Blankenship RE (1992) Origin and early evolution of photosynthesis. Photosynthesis

Research 33: 91-111. (R, IR) 82. Lin S, Chiou HC and Blankenship RE (1992) Energy transfer and photochemistry in

Heliobacillus mobilis. In: Research in Photosynthesis, Murata N, ed. (Kluwer Acad. Pub., Dordrecht) 1: 417-420. (CP)

83. Dracheva S, Williams JC and Blankenship RE (1992) Cloning and sequencing of the FMO-protein gene from Chlorobium tepidum. In: Research in Photosynthesis, N. Murata, ed. (Kluwer Acad. Pub., Dordrecht) 1: 53-56. (CP)

84. Liebl U, Mockensturm-Wilson M, Trost JT, Brune DC, Blankenship RE and Vermaas WFJ

(1992) The reaction center core polypeptide in the photosynthetic bacterium Heliobacillus mobilis, In: Research in Photosynthesis, Murata N, ed. (Kluwer Acad. Pub., Dordrecht) 2: 595-598. (CP)

85. Cheng P and Blankenship RE (1992) Low temperature studies on green photosynthetic

bacterial chlorosomes. In: Research in Photosynthesis, N. Murata, ed. (Kluwer Acad. Pub., Dordrecht) 1: 121-124. (CP)

86. Krasnovsky AA, Jr., Cheng P, Blankenship RE, Moore TA and Gust D (1993) The

photophysics of monomeric bacteriochlorophylls c and d and their derivatives: properties of the triplet state and singlet oxygen photogeneration and quenching. Photochemistry and Photobiology 57: 324-330. (R)

87. Blankenship RE, Cheng P, Causgrove TP, Brune DC, Wang SHH, Choh JU and Wang J

(1993) Redox regulation of energy transfer efficiency in antennas of green photosynthetic bacteria. Photochemistry and Photobiology 57: 103-107. (R)

88. Kleinherenbrink FAM, Cheng P, Amesz J and Blankenship RE (1993) Lifetimes of

bacteriochlorophyll fluorescence in Rhodopseudomonas viridis and Heliobacterium chlorum at low temperatures. Photochemistry and Photobiology 57: 13-18. (R)

89. Godik VI, Blankenship RE, Causgrove TP and Woodbury N (1993) Time-resolved

tryptophan fluorescence in photosynthetic reaction centers from Rhodobacter sphaeroides. FEBS Letters 321: 229-232. (R)

90. Liebl U, Mockensturm-Wilson M, Trost JT, Brune DC, Blankenship RE and Vermaas WFJ

(1993) Single core polypeptide in the reaction center of the photosynthetic bacterium Heliobacillus mobilis: Structural implications and relations to other photosystems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 90: 7124-7128. (R)

91. Causgrove TP, Cheng P, Brune DC and Blankenship RE (1993) Optical spectroscopy of a

highly fluorescent aggregate of bacteriochlorophyll c. Journal of Physical Chemistry 97: 5519-5524. (R)

92. Cheng P, Liddell P, Ma SXC and Blankenship RE (1993) Properties of Zn and Mg methyl

bacteriopheophorbide d and their aggregates. Photochemistry and Photobiology 58: 290-295. (R)

93. Krasnovsky AA, Jr., Lopez J, Cheng P, Blankenship RE, Moore TA and Gust D (1994)

Generation and quenching of singlet molecular oxygen by aggregated molecules of

bacteriochlorophyll d in model systems and chlorosomes. Photosynthesis Research 40: 191-198. (R)

94. Savikhin S, Zhou W,Blankenship RE and Struve WS (1994) Femtosecond energy transfer

and spectral equilibration in bacteriochlorophyll a–protein antenna trimers from the green bacterium Chlorobium tepidum. Biophysical Journal 66: 110-114. (R)

95. Lin S, Chiou HC, Kleinherenbrink FAM and Blankenship RE (1994) Time-resolved

spectroscopy of energy and electron transfer processes in the photosynthetic bacterium Heliobacillus mobilis. Biophysical Journal 66: 437-445. (R)

96. Kleinherenbrink FAM, Hastings G, Wittmershaus BP and Blankenship RE (1994) Delayed

fluorescence from Fe-S Type photosynthetic reaction centers at low redox potential. Biochemistry 33: 3096-3105. (R)

97. Hastings G, Kleinherenbrink FAM, Lin S and Blankenship RE (1994) Time-resolved

fluorescence and absorption spectroscopy of Photosystem I. Biochemistry 33: 3185-3192. (R)

98. Hastings G, Kleinherenbrink FAM, Lin S, McHugh T and Blankenship RE (1994)

Observation of the reduction and re-oxidation of the primary electron acceptor in Photosystem I. Biochemistry 33: 3193-3200. (R)

99. Zhou W, LoBrutto R, Lin S and Blankenship RE (1994) Redox effects on the

bacteriochlorophyll a-containing Fenna-Matthews-Olson protein from Chlorobium tepidum. Photosynthesis Research 41: 89-96. (R)

100. Kleinherenbrink FAM, Chiou HC, LoBrutto R and Blankenship RE (1994) Spectroscopic

evidence for the presence of an iron-sulfur center similar to FX of Photosystem I in Heliobacillus mobilis. Photosynthesis Research 41: 115-123. (R)

101. Blankenship RE (1994) Photosynthesis, In: Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry, King BR,

Ed. (J. Wiley, New York) 6: 3282-3304. (IR) 102. Blankenship RE (1994) Protein structure, electron transfer and evolution of prokaryotic

photosynthetic reaction centers. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 65: 311-329. (IR) 103. Lin S, Kleinherenbrink FAM, Chiou HC and Blankenship RE (1994) Spectral

heterogeneity and time-resolved spectroscopy of excitation energy transfer in membranes of Heliobacillus mobilis at low temperatures. Biophysical Journal 67: 2479-2489. (R)

104. Savikhin S, Zhu Y, Lin S, Blankenship RE and Struve W (1994) Femtosecond

spectroscopy of chlorosome antennas from the green photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Journal of Physical Chemistry 98: 10322-10334. (R)

105. Blankenship RE, Miller M and Olson JM (1995) Antenna complexes from green photosynthetic bacteria, Chapter in: Anoxygenic Photosynthetic Bacteria, Blankenship RE, Madigan MT and Bauer CE, Eds., pp 399-435, Kluwer Academic Publishing, Dordrecht. (IR)

106. Lee WY, Brune DC, LoBrutto R and Blankenship RE (1995) Isolation, characterization

and primary structure of rubredoxin from the photosynthetic bacterium Heliobacillus mobilis. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 318: 80-88. (R)

107. Savikhin S, van Noort PI, Lin S, Blankenship RE and Struve W (1995) Ultrafast energy

transfer in light-harvesting chlorosomes from the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum. Chemical Physics 194: 245-258. (R)

108. Savikhin S, van Noort PI, Blankenship RE and Struve W (1995) Femtosecond probe of

structural analogies between chlorosomes and bacteriochlorophyll c aggregates. Biophysical Journal 69: 1100-1104 (R)

109. Blankenship RE, Madigan MT and Bauer CE, Eds., (1995) Anoxygenic Photosynthetic

Bacteria, 1331 pps, Kluwer Academic Publishing, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. (B) 110. Savikhin S, van Noort PI, Zhu Y, Blankenship RE and Struve WS (1995) Femtosecond

energy transfer kinetics in intact chlorosomes and Bchl c aggregates from green photosynthetic bacteria. In: Photosynthesis: From Light to Biosphere, P. Mathis, Ed. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. 1: 279-282. (CP)

111. Chiou HC and Blankenship RE (1995) Temperature-dependent studies of charge

recombination in Heliobacillus mobilis. In: Photosynthesis: From Light to Biosphere, P. Mathis, Ed. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. 2: 167-170. (CP)

112. Zhu Y, Ramakrishna BL, van Noort PI and Blankenship RE (1995) Microscopic and

spectroscopic studies of untreated and hexanol-treated chlorosomes from Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1232: 197-207. (R).

113. Frank HA, Cua A, Chynwat V, Young AJ, Zhu Y and Blankenship RE (1995) Quenching of

chlorophyll excited states by carotenoids. In: Photosynthesis: From Light to Biosphere, Mathis P, Ed. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. 4: 3-7. (CP)

114. Lin S, Chiou HC, Blankenship RE (1995) Secondary electron transfer processes in

membranes of Heliobacillus mobilis. Biochemistry 34: 12761-12767. (R) 115. Hastings G, Hoshina S, Webber AN and Blankenship RE (1995) Universality of energy

and electron transfer processes in Photosystem I. Biochemistry 34: 15512-15522. (R) 116. Hastings G, Reed LJ, Lin S and Blankenship RE (1995) Excited state dynamics in

Photosystem I: Effects of detergent and excitation wavelength. Biophysical Journal 69: 2044-2055. (R)

117. Zhu Y, Lin S, Ramakrishna BL, van Noort PI and Blankenship RE (1996) Self quenching of

chlorosome chlorophylls in water and hexanol-saturated water. Photosynthesis Research 47: 207-218. (R)

118. Savikhin S, Zhu Y, Blankenship RE and Struve WS, (1996) Ultrafast energy transfer in

chlorosomes from the green photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus, Journal of Physical Chemistry 100: 3320-3322. (R)

119. Diers JR, Zhu Y, Blankenship RE and Bocian DF, (1996) Qy-excitation resonance Raman

spectra of chlorophyll a and bacteriochlorophyll c/d aggregates. Effects of peripheral substituents on the low-frequency vibrational characteristics. Journal of Physical Chemistry 100: 8573- 8579. (R)

120. Freiberg A, Lin S, Timpmann K and Blankenship RE (1996) Ultrafast inter-exciton

relaxation and heating/cooling dynamics in bacteriochlorophyll proteins. In: Excitonic Processes in Condensed Matter Schreiber M, Ed., Dresden University Press, pp. 275-278. (CP)

121. Lopez J, Ryan S and Blankenship RE (1996) Sequence of the bchG Gene from

Chloroflexus aurantiacus: The relationship between chlorophyll synthase and other polyprenyltransferases. Journal of Bacteriology 178: 3369-3373. (R)

122. Chiou HC and Blankenship RE, (1996) Temperature-dependence of charge

recombination in Heliobacillus mobilis. Photochemistry and Photobiology 64: 32-37. (R) 123. Lyubchenko YL, Blankenship RE, Gall AA, Lindsay SM, Thiemann O, Simpson L and

Shlyakhtenko LS (1996) Atomic force microscopy of DNA, nucleoproteins and cellular complexes: The use of functionalized substrates. Scanning Microscopy 10: 97-109. (R).

124. Freiberg A, Lin S, Zhou W and Blankenship RE (1996) Ultrafast relaxation of excitons in

the bacteriochlorophyll antenna proteins from green photosynthetic bacteria. In: Ultrafast Processes in Spectroscopy, Svelto O, De Silvestri S and Denardo G, Eds., Plenum Press, New York, pp. 493-496. (CP)

125. Blankenship RE (1996) Photosynthetic antennas and reaction centers: Current

understanding and prospects for improvement. In: Research Opportunities in Photochemical Sciences, Nozik AJ, Ed. Nrel/cp-450-21097; de96007867. (IR, CP)

126. Savikhin S, Zhu Y, Blankenship RE and Struve WS (1996) Ultrafast energy transfer in

chlorosomes from the green photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Journal of Physical Chemistry 100: 17978 - 17980. (R)

127. Gulbinas V, Valkunas L, Kuciauskas D, Katilius E, Liuolia V, Zhou W and Blankenship RE

(1996) Singlet-singlet annihilation and local heating in FMO complexes. Journal of Physical Chemistry 100: 17950-17956. (R)

128. Blankenship RE (1996) Chlorosome antennas from green photosynthetic bacteria.

Spectrum 9:3: 2-7. (IR) 129. Griffiths WT, McHugh T and Blankenship RE (1996) The light intensity dependence of

protochorophyllide photoconversion and its significance to the catalytic mechanism of protochlorophyllide reductase. FEBS Letters 398: 235 - 238. (R)

130. Blankenship RE (1996) Book review of Protein Electron Transfer, D. S. Bendall, Ed, Bios

Scientific Publishers, Oxford, UK, 1996. FEBS Letters 398: 339. (BR) 131. Chiou HC, Lin S and Blankenship RE (1997) Time-resolved spectroscopy of energy

transfer and trapping upon selective excitation in membranes of Heliobacillus mobilis at low temperature, Journal of Physical Chemistry 101: 4136 - 4141. (R)

132. Melkozernov AN, Lin S, Su H, Bingham S, Webber AN and Blankenship RE (1997)

Specific mutation near the primary donor in Photosystem I from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii alters the trapping time and spectroscopic properties of P700, Biochemistry 36: 2898 - 2907. (R)

133. van Noort PI, Zhu Y, LoBrutto R and Blankenship RE (1997) Redox-effects on the

excited-state lifetime in chlorosomes and bacteriochlorophyll c oligomers. Biophysical Journal 72: 316-325. (R)

134. Li YF, Zhou W, Blankenship RE and Allen J (1997) Crystal structure of the

bacteriochlorophyll a protein from Chlorobium tepidum. Journal of Molecular Biology 271: 456 - 471. (R)

135. Freiberg A, Lin S, Timpmann K and Blankenship RE (1997) Exciton dynamics in FMO

bacteriochlorophyll-protein at low temperature. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 101: 7211-7220. (R)

136. Lee WY, Blankenship RE and Kim SH (1997) Isolation and characterization of a novel

membrane-bound cytochrome c553 from the strictly anaerobic phototroph, Heliobacillus mobilis. Journal of Microbiology 35: 206-212. (R)

137. Melkozernov AN, Su H, Webber AN and Blankenship RE (1998) Excitation energy

transfer in thylakoid membranes from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii lacking chlorophyll b and with mutant Photosystem I. Photosynthesis Research 56: 197-207. (R)

138. Melkozernov AN, Olson JM, Li YF, Allen JP and Blankenship RE (1998) Orientation and

excitonic interactions of the Fenna-Matthews-Olson protein in membranes of the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum. Photosynthesis Research 56: 315-328. (R)

139. Novoderezhkin VI, Taisova AS, Fetisova ZG, Blankenship RE, Savikhin S, Buck DR and Struve WS (1998) Energy transfers in the B808-866 antenna from the green bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Biophysical Journal 74: 2069 - 2075. (R)

140. Rätsep M, Wu H-M, Hayes JM, Blankenship RE, Cogdell RJ and Small GJ (1998) Stark

hole-burning studies of three photosynthetic complexes. Journal of Physical Chemistry 102: 4035-4044. (R)

141. Oh-oka H, Kamei S, Matsubara H, Lin S, van Noort PI and Blankenship RE (1998)

Transient absorption spectroscopy of energy transfer and trapping processes in the reaction center of Chlorobium tepidum. Journal of Physical Chemistry 102: 8190-8195. (R)

142. Blankenship RE and Hartman H (1998) The origin and evolution of oxygenic

photosynthesis. Trends in Biochemical Sciences 23: 94-97. (R) 143. Blankenship RE (1998) Photosynthesis: The Light Reactions. Chapter in: Plant

Physiology, 2nd ed., Taiz L and Zeiger E, eds. (Sinauer Associates, Inc.), 155-193. (R, IR) 144. Savikhin S, Buck DR, Struve WS, Blankenship RE, Taisova AS, Novoderezhkin VI, Fetisova

ZG (1998) Excitation delocalization in the bacteriochlorophyll c antenna of the green bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus as revealed by ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy. FEBS Letters 430: 323-326. (R)

145. Melkozernov AN, Schmid VHR, Schmidt GW and Blankenship RE (1998) energy

redistribution in heterodimeric light harvesting complex LHC1-730 of Photosystem I. Journal of Physical Chemistry 102: 8183-8189. (R)

146. Schweitzer R, Melkozernov AN, Blankenship RE and Brudvig G (1998) Time-resolved

fluorescence measurements of Photosystem II: The effect of quenching by oxidized chlorophyll Z. Journal of Physical Chemistry 102: 8320-8326. (R)

147. Melkozernov A, Lin S and Blankenship RE (1998) Energy equilibration in the antenna of

Photosystem I from Cyanobacterium Synechocystis SP. PCC 6803. Proc. XIth Inter. Congress Photosynthesis; In: Photosynthesis: Mechanisms and Effects, Vol. I, Garab G, ed. (Dordrecht: Kluwer), 405-408. (CP)

148. Selvaraj F, Devine D, Zhou W, Brune DC, Lince MT and Blankenship RE (1998)

Purification and properties of cytochrome c-553 from the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum. Proc. XIth Inter. Congress Photosynthesis; In: Photosynthesis: Mechanisms and Effects, Vol. III, Garab G, ed. (Dordrecht: Kluwer), 1593-1596. (CP)

149. Van Driessche G, Hu W, Van de Werken, G, Selvaraj F., McManus JD, Blankenship RE and

Van Beeumen JJ (1999) Auracyanin A from the green gliding photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus represents an unusual class of small blue copper proteins. Protein Science 8: 947-957. (R)

150. Rätsep M, Blankenship RE and Small GJ (1999) Energy transfer and spectral dynamics of

the three lowest energy Qy-states of the Fenna-Matthew-Olson antenna complex. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 103: 5736-5741. (R)

151. Mi D, Lin S and Blankenship RE (1999) Picosecond transient absorption spectroscopy in

the blue spectral region of Photosystem I. Biochemistry 38: 15231-15237. (R) 152. Melkozernov A, Lin S and Blankenship RE (2000) Excitation dynamics and heterogeneity

of energy equilibration in the core antenna of Photosystem I from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Biochemistry 39: 1489-1498. (R)

153. Melkozernov A, Lin S, Blankenship RE (2000) Femtosecond transient spectroscopy and

excitonic interactions in Photosystem I. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 104: 1651-1656. (R)

154. Melkozernov A, Lin S, Schmid VHR, Paulsen H, Schmidt GW and Blankenship RE (2000)

Ultrafast excitation dynamics of low energy pigments in reconstituted peripheral light-harvesting complexes of photosystem I. FEBS Letters 471: 89-92. (R)

155. Wu H-M, Rätsep M, Young CS, Jankowiak R, Blankenship RE and Small GJ (2000) High

pressure and stark hole burning studies of chlorosome antennas from green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum. Biophysical J. 79: 1561-1572. (R)

156. Bond C, Blankenship RE, Freeman H, Guss JM, Maher M, Selvaraj F, Wilce M and

Willingham K (2001) Crystal structure of auracyanin, a 'blue' copper protein from the green thermophilic photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Journal of Molecular Biology 306: 47-67. (R)

157. Blankenship RE (2001) Molecular evidence for the evolution of photosynthesis, Trends

in Plant Science 6: 4-6. (IR, R) 158. Blankenship RE (2001) It takes two to tango. Nature Structural Biology 8: 94-95. (IR) 159. Kolber ZS, Plumley FG, Lang AS, Beatty JT, Blankenship RE, Van Dover CL, Vetriani C,

Koblizek M, Rathgeber C and Falkowski PG (2001) Contribution of aerobic photoheterotrophic bacteria to the carbon cycle in the ocean. Science 292: 2492-2495. (R)

160. Melkozernov AN, Lin S, Blankenship RE and Valkunas L (2001) Spectral inhomogeneity

of photosystem I and its influence on excitation equilibration and trapping in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 at 77K. Biophysical Journal 81: 1144-1154. (R)

161. Yocum C, Ferguson-Miller S and Blankenship RE (2001) Obituary: Gerald T. Babcock

(1946-2000). Photosynthesis Research 68: 89-94. (IR)

162. Gibasiewicz K, Ramesh VM, Melkozernov AN, Lin S, Woodbury NW, Blankenship RE and

Webber AN (2001) Excitation dynamics in the core antenna of Photosystem I from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii CC 2696 at room temperature. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 105: 11498-11506. (R)

163. Blankenship RE, Raymond J, Lince M, Larkum AWD, Jermiin LS, Lockhart PJ,

Zhaxybayeva O and Gogarten JP (2001) Evolution of photosynthetic antennas and reaction centers. PS 2001 Proceedings: 12th International Congress of Photosynthesis, CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia. (CP)

164. Melkozernov AN, Lin S, Schmid VHR, Lago-Places E, Paulsen H and Blankenship RE

(2001) Molecular origin of red pigments in a peripheral light-harvesting antenna of Photosystem I: Ultrafast absorption spectroscopy of recombinant Lhca4. PS 2001 Proceedings: 12th International Congress of Photosynthesis, CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia. (CP)

165. Montaño GA, Bowen BP, LaBelle JT, Woodbury NW, Pizziconi VB and Blankenship RE

(2001) Determination of the number of bacteriochlorophyll molecules per chlorosome light-harvesting complex in Chlorobium tepidum. PS 2001 Proceedings: 12th International Congress of Photosynthesis, CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia. (CP)

166. Jermiin LS, Blankenship RE, Lockhart PJ and Larkum AWD (2001) Phylogenetic

reconstruction of ancient photosynthetic lineages using chlorophyll and bacteriochlorophyll biosynthetic genes. PS 2001 Proceedings: 12th International Congress of Photosynthesis, CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia. (CP)

167. Blankenship RE (2002) Molecular Mechanisms of Photosynthesis. Blackwell Science,

Oxford, UK. (B) 168. Hu D and Blankenship RE (2002) Rapid one step purification of the BChl-a containing

FMO-protein from the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobium tepidum using a high efficiency immunomatrix. Photosynthesis Research 71: 149-154. (R)

169. Melkozernov AN, Schmid VHR, Lin S, Paulsen H and Blankenship RE (2002) Excitation

energy transfer in the Lhca1 subunit of LHC I-730 peripheral antenna of Photosystem I. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 106: 4313-4317. (R)

170. Raymond J, Zhaxybayeva O, Gerdes S, Gogarten JP and Blankenship RE (2002) Whole

genome analysis of photosynthetic prokaryotes. Science 298: 1616-1620 (R) 171. LaBelle, JT, Montaño GA, Blankenship RE and Pizziconi VB (2002) Nanoengineered

biophotonic hybrid device. Proceedings of the Second Joint EMBS/BMES Conference Houston, TX USA. DOI:10.1109/IEMBS.2002.1106585 (CP)

172. Blankenship RE (2002) Photosynthesis: The light reactions. In: Plant Physiology, 3rd Ed. Taiz L and Zeiger E, Sinauer Associates, Sunderland MA, 111-143. (R, IR)

173. Blankenship RE and Matsuura K (2003) Antenna complexes from green photosynthetic

bacteria. In: Light-Harvesting Antennas, Green BR and Parson WW, eds. (Dordrecht: Kluwer), 195-217. (IR)

174. Rooney MD, Honeychurch MJ, Selvaraj FM, Blankenship RE, Bond AM and Freeman HC

(2003) A thin-film electrochemical study of ‘blue’ copper proteins, auracyanin A and auracyanin B, from the photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus: The reduction potential as a function of pH. Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry 8: 306-317. (R)

175. Mi D, Chen M, Lin S, Lince M, Larkum AWD and Blankenship RE (2003) Excitation

dynamics in the core antenna in the photosystem i reaction center of the chlorophyll d-containing photosynthetic prokaryote Acaryochloris marina. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 107: 1452-1457. (R)

176. Raymond J, Zhaxybayeva O, Gogarten JP and Blankenship RE (2003) Evolution of

photosynthetic prokaryotes: a maximum likelihood mapping approach. Phil. Trans of the Royal Soc. B 358: 223-230. (R)

177. Camara-Artigas A, Blankenship RE and Allen JP (2003) The structure of the FMO protein

from Chlorobium tepidum at 2.2 Å resolution. Photosynthesis Research 75: 49-55. (R) 178. Melkozernov AN, Bibby TS, Lin S, Barber J and Blankenship RE (2003) Time-resolved

absorption and emission show that CP43’ antenna ring of iron stressed Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 is efficiently coupled to the Photosystem I reaction center core. Biochemistry 42: 3893-3903. (R)

179. Raymond J and Blankenship RE (2003) Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotic algal

evolution. Proc. Nat’l. Acad. Sci. US, 100: 7419-7420. (IR) 180. Montaño GA, Wu H-M, Lin S, Brune DC and Blankenship RE (2003) Isolation and

characterization of the B798 baseplate light-harvesting complex from the chlorosomes of Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Biochemistry 42: 10246-10251. (R)

181. Montaño GA, Bowen BP, LaBelle JT, Woodbury NW, Pizziconi VB and Blankenship RE

(2003) Characterization of Chlorobium tepidum chlorosomes - A calculation of bacteriochlorophyll c per chlorosome and oligomer modeling. Biophysical Journal 85: 2560-2565. (R)

182. Melkozernov AN and Blankenship RE (2003) Structural modeling of the Lhca4 subunit of

LHCI-730 peripheral antenna in photosystem I based on similarity with LHCII. Journal of Biological Chemistry 278: 44542 - 44551. (R)

183. Raymond J, Siefert J, Staples C and Blankenship RE (2004) The natural history of nitrogen fixation. Molecular Biology and Evolution 21: 541-554. (R)

184. Gest H and Blankenship RE (2004) Time line of discoveries: Anoxygenic bacterial

photosynthesis. Photosynthesis Research 80: 59-70. (R, IR) 185. Olson JM and Blankenship RE (2004) Thinking about the evolution of photosynthesis.

Photosynthesis Research 80: 373-386. (R, IR) 186. Raymond J and Blankenship RE (2004) The evolutionary development of the protein

complement of Photosystem 2. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1655: 133– 139 (R, IR) 187. Lancaster VR, LoBrutto R, Selvaraj FM and Blankenship RE (2004) A cambialistic

superoxide dismutase in the thermophilic photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Journal of Bacteriology 186: 3408-3414. (R)

188. Oh-oka H and Blankenship RE (2004) Green bacteria: Secondary electron donor

(cytochromes) Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry, Lennarz WJ and Lane MD, Eds., Elsevier, Oxford, 2: 321-324. (IR)

189. Ilagan RP, Shima S, Melkozernov A, Lin S, Blankenship RE, Sharples FP, Hiller RG, Birge

RR and Frank HA (2004) Spectroscopic properties of the main-form and high-salt peridinin-chlorophyll a-proteins from Amphidinium carterae. Biochemistry 43: 1478-1487. (R)

190. Montaño GA, Xin Y, Lin S and Blankenship RE (2004) Carotenoid and

bacteriochlorophyll energy transfer in the B808-866 complex from Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 108: 10607-10611. (R)

191. Melkozernov AN, Kargul J, Lin S, Barber J and Blankenship RE (2004) Energy coupling in

the PSI-LHCI supercomplex from the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 108: 10547-10555. (R)

192. Blankenship RE (2004) Identification of a key step in the biosynthetic pathway of

bacteriochlorophyll c and its implications for other known and unknown green sulfur bacteria. Journal of Bacteriology 186: 5187-5188. (IR)

193. Raymond J and Blankenship RE (2004) Biosynthetic pathways, gene replacement and the

antiquity of life. Geobiology 2: 199–203. (R) 194. Miller SR, Augustine S, Olson TL, Blankenship RE, Selker J and Wood AM (2005)

Discovery of a free-living chlorophyll d-producing cyanobacterium with a hybrid proteobacterial cyanobacterial small-subunit rRNA gene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 102: 850-855. (R)

195. Blankenship RE (2005) Natural organic photosynthetic solar energy transduction. In:

Organic Photovoltaics: Mechanisms, Materials and Devices, S-S Sun and S Sariciftci, Eds. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL pps. 37-48. (IR)

196. Brixner T, Stenger J, Vaswani HM, Cho M, Blankenship RE and Fleming GR (2005) Two-

dimensional spectroscopy of electronic couplings in photosynthesis Nature 434: 625-629. (R)

197. Xin Y, Lin S, Montaño GA and Blankenship RE (2005) Structure analysis and excitation

transfer dynamics in B808–866 light-harvesting complexes of the green bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus In: Photosynthesis: Fundamental Aspects to Global Perspectives, 1 Vol. 1, pp 111-112, Allen Press, Lawrence, KS, USA. (CP)

198. Melkozernov, A. N., Kargul, J., Lin, S., Barber, J., and Blankenship R. (2005) Excited state

dynamics in the PSI-LHCI supercomplex from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: excitation wavelength dependence study. In: Photosynthesis: Fundamental Aspects to Global Perspectives, A. van der Est, D. Bruce, Eds, Vol. 1, pp. 178-180, Allen Press, Lawrence, KS, USA. (CP)

199. Staples CR and Blankenship RE (2005) Photosynthesis. In: Encyclopedia of Inorganic

Chemistry, 2nd Edition, R. B. King, Ed., John Wiley, Chichester, Vol. VII, pps 4459-4487. (IR)

200. Melkozernov AN and Blankenship RE (2005) Structural and functional organization of

the peripheral light-harvesting system in Photosystem I. Photosynthesis Research 85: 33-50. (IR, R)

201. Niederman RA, Frank HA and Blankenship RE (2005) An introduction to the special

issue on photosynthetic antenna pigments and complexes. Photosynthesis Research 86: 1-3. (IR)

202. Hohmann-Marriott MF, Blankenship RE, Roberson RW (2005) The ultrastructure of

Chlorobium tepidum chlorosomes revealed by electron microscopy. Photosynthesis Research 86: 145-154. (R)

203. Xin Y, Lin S, Montaño GA and Blankenship RE (2005) Purification and characterization of

the B808-866 light-harvesting complexes from the green filamentous bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Photosynthesis Research 86: 155-163. (R)

204. Melkozernov AN, Kargul J, Lin S, Barber J and Blankenship RE (2005) Spectral and

kinetic analysis of the energy coupling in the PSI-LHCI supercomplex from the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii at 77 K. Photosynthesis Research 86: 203-216. (R)

205. Beatty JT, Overmann J, Lince MT, Manske AK, Lang AS, Blankenship RE, Van Dover CL,

Martinson TA and Plumley FG (2005) An obligately photosynthetic bacterial anaerobe from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 102: 9306-9310. (R)

206. Yanyushin MF, del Rosario M, Brune DC and Blankenship RE (2005) A new class of

bacterial membrane oxidoreductases. Biochemistry 44: 10037-10045. (R) 207. Hohmann-Marriott MF, Blankenship RE, Sharp W and Roberson RW (2005) Digital

position determination system for electron microscopy. Microscopy Research and Technique 67: 106-111. (R)

208. Yocum CF, Blankenship RE and Ferguson-Miller S (2005) Dedication/personal

perspective: a tribute to Jerry Babcock. In: Photosystem II: The Water/Plastoquinone Oxido-Reductase In Photosynthesis. Wydrzynski T and Satoh K, Eds, Springer, Dordrecht, 1-10. (R, IR)

209. Dismukes GC and Blankenship RE (2005) The origin and evolution of photosynthetic

oxygen production. In: Photosystem II: The Water/Plastoquinone Oxido-Reductase In Photosynthesis. Wydrzynski T and Satoh K, Eds, Springer, Dordrecht, 683-695. (R, IR)

210. Swingley WD, Hohmann-Marriott MF, Olson TL and Blankenship RE (2005) Effect of iron

on growth and ultrastructure of Acaryochloris marina. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71: 8606-8610. (R)

211. Chen M, Telfer A, Lin S, Pascal A, Larkum AWD, Barber J and Blankenship RE (2005) The nature of the Photosystem II reaction centre in the chlorophyll d containing prokaryote, Acaryochloris marina. Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences 4: 1060-1064. (R)

212. Melkozernov AN, Barber J and Blankenship RE (2006) Light harvesting in photosystem I

supercomplexes. Biochemistry 45: 331-345. (IR, R) 213. Raymond J and Blankenship RE (2006) How did the Photosystem I reaction center

evolve? In: Photosystem I: The Light-Driven, Plastocyanin:Ferredoxin Oxidoreductase. J Golbeck, Ed, Springer, Dordrecht, pps 669-682. (IR)

214. Blankenship RE (2006) Photosynthesis: The Light Reactions. Chapter 7 in: Plant

Physiology, 4th Ed., L Taiz and E Zeiger, Eds., Sinauer Publishing, 125-158. (IR, R) 215. Sadekar S, Raymond J and Blankenship RE (2006) Conservation of distantly related

membrane proteins: photosynthetic reaction centers share a common structural core. Molecular Biology and Evolution 23: 2001-2007. (R)

216. Brixner T, Stenger J, Vaswani HM, Cho M, Blankenship RE and Fleming GR (2006)

Electronic 2D spectroscopy of light harvesting. In: Femtochemistry VII: Fundamental Ultrafast Processes in Chemistry, Physics and Biology, Castleman AW Jr., Kimble ML, Eds., Elsevier Science, 331-336. (CP)

217. Melkozernov AN and Blankenship RE (2006) Photosynthetic functions of chlorophylls.

In: Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration, Vol. 25, B Grimm, RJ Porra, W Rüdiger

and H Scheer, Eds, Chlorophylls and Bacteriochlorophylls: Biochemistry, Biophysics, Functions and Applications. Springer, Dordrecht, 397-412. (IR)

218. Swingley WD, Sadekar S, Mastrian SD, Matthies HJ, Hao J, Ramos H, Acharya CR, Conrad

AL, Taylor HL, Dejesa LC, Shah MK, O’Huallachain ME, Lince MT, Blankenship RE, Beatty JT and Touchman JW (2007) The complete genome sequence of Roseobacter denitrificans reveals a mixotrophic rather than photosynthetic metabolism. Journal of Bacteriology 189: 683-690. (R)

219. Kiang N, Siefert J, Govindjee, Blankenship RE, (2007) Spectral signatures of

photosynthesis. I. Review of earth organisms. Astrobiology 7: 222-251. (R) 220. Kiang N, Segura A, Tinetti G, Govindjee, Blankenship RE, Cohen M, Siefert J, Crisp D and

Meadows VS (2007) Spectral signatures of photosynthesis. II. Coevolution with other stars and the atmosphere on extrasolar worlds. Astrobiology 7: 252-274. (R)

221. Blankenship RE, Sadekar S and Raymond J (2007) The evolutionary transition from

anoxygenic to oxygenic photosynthesis. In: Evolution of Aquatic Photoautotrophs, Falkowski P and Knoll AN, Eds, Academic Press, New York, pps 21-35. (IR)

222. Hohmann-Marriott M and Blankenship RE (2007) Variable fluorescence in green sulfur

bacteria. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1767: 106-113. (R) 223. Blankenship RE and Govindjee (2007) Photosynthesis, In: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of

Science and Technology, McGraw-Hill, NY, DOI 10.1036/1097-8542.511700. http://www.accessscience.com/content.aspx?id=511700 (IR)

224. Govindjee, Blankenship RE and Shopes RJ (2007) Bacterial Photosynthesis, In: McGraw-

Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, McGraw-Hill, NY, DOI 10.1036/1097-8542.511700. http://www.accessscience.com/content.aspx?id=511700 (IR)

225. Olson TL, van de Meene AML, Francis JN, Pierson BK and Blankenship RE (2007)

Pigment analysis of “Candidatus Chlorothrix halophila”, a green filamentous anoxygenic phototrophic bacterium. Journal of Bacteriology 189: 4187-4195. (R)

226. van de Meene AML, Olson TL, Collins AM and Blankenship RE (2007) Initial

characterization of the photosynthetic apparatus of “Candidatus Chlorothrix halophila”: A filamentous, anoxygenic photoautotroph. Journal of Bacteriology 189: 4196-4203. (R)

227. Engel GS, Calhoun TR, Read EL, Ahn TK, Mancal T, Cheng Y-C, Blankenship RE and

Fleming GR (2007) Evidence for wavelike energy transfer through quantum coherence in photosynthetic systems. Nature 446: 782-786. (R)

228. Hohmann-Marriott M and Blankenship RE, (2007) Hypothesis on chlorosome

biogenesis in green photosynthetic bacteria. FEBS Letters 581: 800-803. (R)

229. Read EL, Engel GS, Calhoun TR, Mancal T, Ahn TK, Blankenship RE and Fleming GR

(2007) Cross-peak specific two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104: 14203-14208. (R)

230. Staples CR, Lahiri S, Raymond J, Von Herbulis L, Mukhophadhyay B and Blankenship RE

(2007) The expression and association of group IV nitrogenase NifD And NifH homologs in the non-nitrogen fixing Archaeon Methanocaldococcus jannaschii. Journal of Bacteriology 189: 7392-7398. (R)

231. Swingley WD, Blankenship RE and Raymond J, (2007) Insights into cyanobacterial

evolution from comparative genomics. In: Genomics and Molecular Biology of Cyanobacteria, Herrero A and Flores E, Eds, Horizon Scientific Press, Norwich, UK. pps. 22-43. (IR)

232. Xin Y, Lin S and Blankenship RE (2007) Femtosecond spectroscopy of the primary

charge separation in reaction centers of Chloroflexus aurantiacus with selective excitation in Qy and Soret bands. Journal of Physical Chemistry A 111: 9367-9373. (R)

233. Blankenship RE (2007) 2007 Awards of the International Society of Photosynthesis

Research (ISPR). Photosynthesis Research 94: 179-181. (CP) 234. Blankenship RE (2007), Photosynthesis: Energy Capture, in Hoober JK (Ed.), Chloroplast:

The Organelle that Sustains Us, The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks Ltd, London (online at http://www.hstalks.com/?t=BL0431431-Blankenship) (MM)

235. Blankenship RE, Raymond J, Staples C and Mukhopadhyay B (2008) Evolution of

functional diversity in nitrogenase homologs. In: Biological Nitrogen Fixation: Towards Poverty Alleviation through Sustainable Agriculture: Proceedings of the 15th International Nitrogen Fixation Congress. Dakora FD, Chimphango SBM, Valentine AJ, Elmerich C and Newton WE, Eds, Springer, pps. 305-306. (CP)

236. Raymond J and Blankenship RE (2008) The origin of the oxygen-evolving complex.

Coordination Chemistry Reviews 252: 377-383. (IR, R) 237. Hohmann-Marriott M and Blankenship RE (2008) Anoxygenic type I photosystems and

evolution of photosynthetic reaction centers. In: Photosynthetic Protein Complexes: A Structural Approach, Fromme P, Ed, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, pps 295-324. (IR)

238. Swingley WD, Blankenship RE and Raymond J (2008) Integrating Markov clustering and

molecular phylogenetics to reconstruct the cyanobacterial species tree from conserved protein families. Molecular Biology and Evolution 25: 1-12. (R)

239. Blankenship RE and Haffa A (2008) Why we need to teach the evolution of

photosynthesis. In: Photosynthesis. Energy from the Sun: 14th International Congress

on Photosynthesis, Allen JF, Gantt E, Golbeck JH & Osmond B, Eds, Springer, Dordrecht, pps. 1613–1617. (CP)

240. Chen M, Zhang Y and Blankenship RE (2008) Nomenclature for membrane-bound light-

harvesting complexes of cyanobacteria. Photosynthesis Research 95: 147-154. (R) 241. Rensing SA, Lang D, Zimmer A, Terry A, SalamovA, Shapiro H, Nishiyama T, Perroud P-F,

Lindquist E, Kamisugi Y, Tanahashi T, Sakakibara K, Fujita T, Oishi K, Shin-I T, Kuroki Y, Toyoda A, Suzuki Y, Hashimoto S, Yamaguchi K, Sugano S, Kohara Y, Fujiyama A, Anterola A, Aoki S, Ashton N, Barbazuk WB, Barker E, Bennetzen J, Blankenship R, Cho SH, Dutcher S, Estelle M, Fawcett JA, Gundlach H, Hanada K, Heyl A, Hicks KA, Hughes J, Lohr M, Mayer K, Melkozernov A, Murata T, Nelson D, Pils B, Prigge M, Reiss B, Renner T, Rombauts S, Rushton P, Sanderfoot A, Schween G, Shiu S-H, Stueber K, Theodoulou FL, Tu H3, Van de Peer Y, Verrier PJ, Waters E, Wood A, Yang L, Cove D, Cuming AC, Hasebe M, Lucas S, Mishler BD, Reski R, Grigoriev I, Quatrano RS and Boore JL (2008) The Physcomitrella genome reveals evolutionary insights into the conquest of land by plants. Science 319: 64-69. (R)

242. Swingley WD, Chen M, Cheung PC, Conrad AL, Dejesa LC, Hao J, Honchak BM, Karbach

LE, Kurdoglu A, Lahiri S, Mastrian SD, Miyashita H, Page LE, Ramakrishna P, Satoh S, Sattley WM, Shimada Y, Taylor HL, Tomo T, Tsuchiya T, Wang ZT, Raymond J, Mimuro M, Blankenship RE and Touchman JW (2008) Niche adaptation and genome expansion in the chlorophyll d-producing cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105: 2005-2010. (R)

243. Rathgeber C, Lince M, Alric J, Lang AS, Humphrey E, Blankenship RE, Verméglio A,

Plumley FG, Van Dover CL, Beatty JT and Yurkov V (2008) Vertical distribution and characterization of aerobic phototrophic bacteria at the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the Pacific Ocean. Photosynthesis Research 97: 235-244. (R)

244. Read EL, Schlau-Cohen GS, Engel GS, Wen J, Blankenship RE, Fleming GR (2008)

Visualization of excitonic structure in the fenna-matthews-olson photosynthetic complex by polarization-dependent two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy. Biophysical Journal 95: 847-856. (R)

245. Sattley WM, Madigan MT, Swingley WD, Cheung PC, Clocksin KM, Conrad AL, Dejesa

LC, Honchak BM, Jung DO, Karbach LE, Kurdoglu A, Lahiri S, Mastrian SD, Page LE, Taylor HL, Wang ZT, Raymond J, Chen M, Blankenship RE and Touchman JW (2008) The genome of Heliobacterium modesticaldum, a phototrophic representative of the Firmicutes containing the simplest photosynthetic apparatus. Journal of Bacteriology 190: 4687-4696. (R)

246. Swingley WD, Blankenship RE and Raymond J (2009) Evolutionary relationships among

purple photosynthetic bacteria and the origin of proteobacterial photosynthetic systems. In: The Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria, Eds., Hunter CN, Daldal F, Thurnauer M and Beatty JT, Springer, Dordrecht, pps. 17-29. (IR)

247. Xin Y, Lu Y-K, Fromme R, Fromme P and Blankenship RE (2009) Purification,

characterization and crystallization of menaquinol:fumarate oxidoreductase from the green filamentous photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1787: 86-96. (R)

248. Lee M, del Rosario MC, Harris HH, Blankenship RE, Guss JM and Freeman HC (2009) The

crystal structure of auracyanin A at 1.85Å resolution: The structures and functions of auracyanins A and B, two almost identical ‘blue’ copper proteins, in the photosynthetic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry 14: 329-345. (R)

249. Björn LO, Papageorgiou GC, Blankenship RE and Govindjee (2009) A viewpoint: why

chlorophyll a? Photosynthesis Research 99: 85-98. (R) 250. Tronrud DE, Wen J, Gay L, and Blankenship RE (2009) The structural basis for the

difference in absorbance spectra for the FMO antenna protein from various green sulfur bacteria. Photosynthesis Research 100: 79-87. (R)

251. Wen J, Zhao H, Gross ML and Blankenship RE (2009) Membrane orientation of the FMO

antenna protein from Chlorobaculum tepidum as determined by mass spectrometry-based footprinting. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 106: 6134-6139. (R)

252. Collins AM, Xin Y, and Blankenship RE (2009) Pigment organization in the

photosynthetic apparatus of Roseiflexus castenholzii. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1787: 1050-1056. (R)

253. Bell P, Xin Y and Blankenship RE (2009) Purification and characterization of cytochrome

c6 from Acaryochloris marina. Photosynthesis Research 102: 43-51. (R) 254. Tang K-H, Wen J, Li X and Blankenship RE (2009) The role of the AcsF protein in

Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Journal of Bacteriology 191: 3580-3587. (R) 255. Psencík J, Collins AM, Liljeroos L, Torkkeli M, Laurinmaki P, Ansink HM, Ikonen TP,

Serimaa RE, Blankenship RE, Tuma R, Butcher SJ (2009) Structure of the chlorosomes from green filamentous bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Journal of Bacteriology 191: 6701-6708. (R)

256. Tang K-H, Feng X, Tang Y and Blankenship RE (2009) Carbohydrate metabolism and

carbon fixation in Roseobacter denitrificans OCh114. PLoS One 4: e7233 1-12. (R) 257. Gao X, Xin Y and Blankenship RE (2009) Enzymatic activity of the alternative complex III

as a menaquinol:auracyanin oxidoreductase in the electron transfer chain of Chloroflexus aurantiacus. FEBS Letters 583: 3275-3279. (R)

258. Moulisová V, Luer L, Hoseinkhani S, Brotosudarmo THP, Collins AM, Lanzani G, Blankenship RE, Cogdell RJ (2009) Low light adaptation: Energy transfer processes in different types of light harvesting complexes from Rhodopseudomonas palustris. Biophysical Journal 97: 3019-3028. (R)

259. Modesto-Lopez LB, Thimsen EJ, Collins AM, Blankenship RE and Biswas P (2010)

Electrospray-assisted characterization and deposition of chlorosomes to fabricate a biomimetic light-harvesting device. Energy and Environmental Science 3: 216-222. (R)

260. Sattley WM and Blankenship RE (2010) Insights into heliobacterial photosynthesis and

physiology from the genome of Heliobacterium modesticaldum. Photosynthesis Research 104: 113-122. (R)

261. Tsukatani Y, Wen J, Blankenship RE, and Bryant DA (2010) Characterization of the FMO

protein from the aerobic chlorophototroph, Candidatus Chloracidobacterium thermophilum. Photosynthesis Research 104: 201-209. (R)

262. Lu Y-K, Marden J, Han M, Swingley WD, Mastrian SD, Chowdhury SR, Hao J, Helmy T,

Kim S, Kurdoglu AA, Matthies HJ, Rollo D, Stothard P, Blankenship RE, Bauer CE, and Touchman JW (2010) Metabolic flexibility revealed in the genome of the cyst-forming alpha-1 proteobacterium Rhodospirillum centenum. BMC Genomics 11: 325. (R)

263. Collins AM, Redding KE and Blankenship RE (2010) Modulation of fluorescence in

Heliobacterium modesticaldum cells. Photosynthesis Research 104: 283-292. (R) 264. Tang K-H, Yue H, Blankenship RE (2010) Energy metabolism of Heliobacterium

modesticaldum during phototrophic and chemotrophic growth. BMC Microbiology 10: 150. (R)

265. Reinert F and Blankenship RE (2010) Evolutionary aspects of crassulacean acid

metabolism. Oecologia Australis 14: 359-368. (R) 266. Blankenship RE (2010) Photosynthesis: The Light Reactions. Chapter 7 in: Plant

Physiology, 5th Ed., L Taiz and E Zeiger, Eds., Sinauer Publishing, 163-197. (R, IR) 267. Niedzwiedzki DM, Collins AM, LaFountain AM, Enriquez MM, Frank HA and Blankenship

RE (2010) Spectroscopic studies of carotenoid-to-bacteriochlorophyll energy transfer in LHRC photosynthetic complex from Roseiflexus castenholzii. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 114: 8723-8734. (R)

268. Panitchayangkoon G, Hayes D, Fransted KA, Caram JR, Harel E, Wen J, Blankenship RE

and Engel GS (2010) Long-lived quantum coherence in photosynthetic complexes at physiological temperature. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 107: 12766-12770. (R)

269. Wen J, Harada J, Buyle K, Yuan K, Loomis RA, Tamiaki H, Oh-oka H, Blankenship RE (2010) Characterization of an FMO variant of Chlorobaculum tepidum carrying bacteriochlorophyll a esterified by geranylgeraniol. Biochemistry 49: 5455-5463. (R)

270. Gao X, Xin Y, Bell PD, Wen J and Blankenship RE (2010) Structural analysis of Alternative

Complex III in the Photosynthetic electron transfer chain of Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Biochemistry 49: 6670-6679. (R)

271. Tang K-H, Urban VS, Wen J, Xin Y and Blankenship RE (2010) SANS investigation of the

photosynthetic machinery of Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Biophysical Journal 99: 2398-2407. (R)

272. Zhang H, Cui W, Wen J, Blankenship RE and Gross ML (2010) Native electrospray and

electron-capture dissociation in FTICR mass spectrometry provide top-down sequencing of a protein component in an intact protein assembly. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry 21: 1966-1968. (R)

273. Tang K-H and Blankenship RE (2010) Both forward and reverse TCA cycles operate in

green sulfur bacteria. Journal of Biological Chemistry 285: 35848-35854. (R) 274. Blankenship RE (2010) Early evolution of photosynthesis. Plant Physiology 154: 434-

438. (R, IR). 275. Collins AM, Qian P, Tang Q, Bocian DF, Hunter CN and Blankenship RE (2010) The light-

harvesting antenna system from the phototrophic bacterium Roseiflexus castenholzii. Biochemistry 49: 7524-7531. (R)

276. Feng Y, Tang K-H, Blankenship RE and Tang YJ (2010) Metabolic flux analysis of the

mixotrophic metabolisms in the green sulfur bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum. Journal of Biological Chemistry 285: 39544-39550. (R)

277. Tang K-H, Feng Y, Zhuang W-Q, Alverez-Cohen L, Blankenship RE and Tang YJ (2010)

Carbon flow of Heliobacterium is related more to Clostridia than to the green sulfur bacteria. Journal of Biological Chemistry 285: 35104-35112. (R)

278. Niedzwiedzki DM and Blankenship RE (2010) Singlet and triplet excited state properties

of natural chlorophylls and bacteriochlorophylls. Photosynthesis Research 106: 227-238. (R)

279. Niedzwiedzki DM, Kobayashi M and Blankenship RE (2011) Triplet excited state spectra

and dynamics of carotenoids from the thermophilic purple photosynthetic bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum. Photosynthesis Research 107: 177-186. (R)

280. Collins AM, Kirmaier C, Holten D, and Blankenship RE (2011) Kinetics and energetics of

the reaction center of the photosynthetic bacterium Roseiflexus castenholzii. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1807: 262-269. (R)

281. Larson CR, Seng CO, Lauman L, Matthies HJ, Wen J, Blankenship RE and Allen JP (2011)

The three-dimensional structure of the FMO protein from Pelodictyon phaeum and the implications for energy transfer. Photosynthesis Research 107: 139-150. (R)

282. Wen J, Zhang H, Gross ML and Blankenship RE (2011) Native electrospray mass

spectrometry reveals the nature and stoichiometry of pigments in the FMO antenna protein. Biochemistry 50: 3502-3511. (R)

283. Tang K-H, Zhu L, Urban VS, Collins AM, Biswas P and Blankenship RE (2011)

Temperature and ionic strength effects on the chlorosome light-harvesting antenna complex. Langmuir 27: 4816-4828. (R)

284. Wen J, Tsukatani Y, Cui W, Zhang H, Gross ML, Bryant DA and Blankenship RE (2011)

Structural model and spectroscopic characteristics of the FMO antenna protein from the aerobic chlorophototroph, Candidatus Chloracidobacterium thermophilum. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1807: 157-164. (R)

285. Blankenship RE, Tiede DM, Barber J, Brudvig GW, Fleming G, Ghirardi M, Gunner MR,

Junge W, Kramer DM, Melis A, Moore TA, Moser CC, Nocera DG, Nozik AJ, Ort DR, Parson WW, Prince RC, Sayre RT (2011) Comparing Photosynthetic and Photovoltaic Efficiencies and Recognizing the Potential for Improvement. Science 332: 805-809. (R, IR)

286. Chen M and Blankenship RE (2011) Expanding the solar spectrum used by

photosynthesis. Trends in Plant Sciences 16: 427-431. (IR) 287. Hohmann-Marriott, MF and Blankenship RE (2011) Evolution of photosynthesis. Annual

Review of Plant Biology 62: 515-548. (R, IR) 288. Tang K-H, Feng X, Bandyopadhyay A, Pakrasi HB, Tang YJ, and Blankenship RE (2013)

Unique central carbon metabolic pathways and novel enzymes in phototrophic bacteria revealed by integrative genomics, 13C-based metabolomics and fluxomics. Proc. 15th Int. Congress on Photosynthesis, T Kuang C Lu, L Zhang, Eds. Photosynthesis Research for Food, Fuel and the Future Zhejiang University Press, Hangzhou and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pps 339-343. (CP)

289. Hayes D, Wen J, Blankenship RE, and Engel GS (2011) Robustness of electronic

coherence in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex to vibronic and structural modifications. Faraday Discussions 150: 459-469. (R, CP)

290. Tang K-H, Barry K, Chertkov O, Dalin E, Han CS, Hauser LJ, Honchak BM, Karbach LE,

Land ML, Lapidus A, Larimer FW, Mikhailova N, Pitluck S, Pierson BK and Blankenship RE (2011) Complete genome sequence of the filamentous anoxygenic phototrophic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. BMC Genomics 12: 334. (R)

291. Niedzwiedzki DM, Fuciman M, Frank HA and Blankenship RE (2011) Energy Transfer in an LH4-like light-harvesting complex from the aerobic purple photosynthetic bacterium Roseobacter denitrificans. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1807: 518-528. (R)

292. Zhang H, Cui W, Wen J, Blankenship RE and Gross ML (2011) Native electrospray and

electron-capture dissociation FTICR mass spectrometry for top-down studies of protein assemblies. Analytical Chemistry 83: 5598-5606. (R)

293. Brotosudarmo THP, Collins AM, Gall A, Roszak AW, Gardiner AT, Blankenship RE and

Cogdell RJ (2011) The light intensity at which cells are grown controls the type of peripheral light-harvesting complexes that are assembled in a purple photosynthetic bacterium. Biochemical Journal 440: 51-61. (R)

294. Miller SR, Wood AM, Blankenship RE, Kim M and Ferriera S (2011) Dynamics of gene

duplication in the genomes of chlorophyll d-producing cyanobacteria: Implications for the ecological niche. Genome Biology and Evolution 3: 601-613. (R)

295. Tang K-H, Tang YJ and Blankenship RE (2011) Carbon metabolism pathways in

phototrophic bacteria and their broader evolutionary implications. Frontiers in Microbiology 2: 165. (R)

296. Mielke SP, Kiang NY, Blankenship RE, Gunner MR, Mauzerall D (2011) Efficiency of

photosynthesis in a Chl d-utilizing cyanobacterium is comparable to or higher than that in Chl a-utilizing oxygenic species. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1807: 1231-1236. (R)

297. Guo Z, Lin S, Xin Y, Wang H, Blankenship RE and Woodbury NW (2011) Comparing the

temperature dependence of photosynthetic electron transfer in Chloroflexus aurantiacus and Rhodobactor sphaeroides. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 115:11230-11238. (R)

298. Niedzwiedzki DM, Fuciman M, Kobayashi M, Frank HA and Blankenship RE (2011)

Ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopy of the light-harvesting complex 2 (LH2) from the photosynthetic bacterium Thermochromatium tepidum. Photosynthesis Research 110: 49-60. (R)

299. Hohmann-Marriott M and Blankenship RE (2012) The photosynthetic world. In:

Photosynthesis: Plastid Biology, Energy Conversion and Carbon Assimilation. Eds. Eaton-Rye JJ, Tripathy BC and Sharkey TD, Springer, Dordrecht, 3-32. (IR)

300. Zhang H, Wen J, Huang R-C, Blankenship RE and Gross ML (2012) Mass spectrometry-

based carboxyl footprinting of proteins: Method evaluation. Int. J. of Mass Spectrometry 312: 78-86. (R)

301. Yue H, Kang Y, Zhang H, Gao X and Blankenship RE (2012) Expression and

Characterization of the diheme cytochrome c subunit of the cytochrome bc complex in

Heliobacterium modesticaldum. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 517: 131-137. (R)

302. Collins AM, Wen J and Blankenship RE (2012) Photosynthetic light-harvesting

complexes. In Molecular Solar Fuels, T Wydrzynski and W Hillier, Eds., Royal Soc. of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK. 85-106. (IR)

303. Ruggirello RM, Balcerzak P, May VL and Blankenship RE (2012) Measurement of solar

spectra relating to photosynthesis and solar cells: an inquiry lab for secondary science. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education 40: 241-245. (R)

304. DeSantis MC, Zareh SK, Li X, Blankenship RE and Wang YM (2012) Single-image axial

localization precision analysis for individual fluorophores. Optics Express 20: 3057-3065. (R)

305. Huang R Y-C, Wen J, Blankenship RE and Gross ML (2012) Hydrogen-deuterium

exchange mass spectrometry reveals the interaction of Fenna-Matthews-Olson protein and chlorosome CsmA protein. Biochemistry 51: 187-193. (R)

306. Tang K-H and Blankenship RE (2012) Neutron and light scattering studies of light-

harvesting photosynthetic antenna complexes. Photosynthesis Research 111: 205-217. (R, IR)

307. Xin Y, Collins AM, Lin S, Pan J and Blankenship RE (2012) Excitation energy transfer and

trapping dynamics in the core complex of the filamentous photosynthetic bacterium Roseiflexus castenholzii. Photosynthesis Research 111: 149-156. (R)

308. Li Y, Scales N, Blankenship RE, Willows RD and Chen M (2012) Extinction coefficient for

red-shifted chlorophylls: chlorophyll d and chlorophyll f. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1817: 1292–1298. (R)

309. Jiang J, Zhang H, Kang Y, Bina D, Lo CS and Blankenship RE (2012) Characterization of

the peridinin-chlorophyll a-protein complex in the dinoflagellate Symbiodinium. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1817: 983-989. (R)

310. Niedzwiedzki DM, Bina D, Picken N, Honkanen S, Blankenship RE, Holten D and Cogdell

RJ (2012) Spectroscopic studies of two spectral variants of light-harvesting complex 2 (LH2) from the photosynthetic purple sulfur bacterium Allochromatium vinosum. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1817: 1576–1587. (R)

311. Vogl K, Tank M, Orf GZ, Blankenship RE and Bryant DA (2012) Bacteriochlorophyll f:

Properties of chlorosomes containing the “forbidden chlorophyll”. Frontiers in Microbiology 3: Article 298, pps 1-12. (R)

312. O’Dell WB, Beatty KJ, Tang K-H, Blankenship RE, Urban VS, and O’Neill H (2012) Sol–gel entrapped light harvesting antennas: Immobilization and stabilization of chlorosomes for energy harvesting. Journal of Materials Chemistry 22: 22582 - 22591. (R)

313. Marty MT, Zhang H, Cui W, Blankenship RE, Gross ML, Sligar SG (2012) Native mass

spectrometry characterizes intact nanodisc lipoprotein complexes. Analytical Chemistry 84: 8957–8960. (R)

314. Shah VB, Orf GS, Reisch S, Harrington LB, Prado M, Blankenship RE and Biswas P (2012)

Characterization and deposition of various light-harvesting antenna complexes by electrospray atomization. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 404: 2329-2338. (R)

315. An W-J, Co-Reyes J, Shah VB, Wang W-N, Orf GS, Blankenship RE, and Biswas P (2012)

Nano-biohybrid light-harvesting systems for solar energy applications. MRS Proceedings 1445: mrss12-1445-t05-04 doi:10.1557/opl.2012.1220. (R)

316. Tang K-H, You L, Blankenship RE, Tang YJ (2012) Recent advances in mapping novel

microbial metabolisms through 13C isotopic fingerprints. J. Royal Society Interface 9: 2767-2780. (R, IR)

317. Mielke SP, Kiang NY, Blankenship RE and Mauzerall D (2013) Photosystem trap energies

and spectrally dependent energy-storage efficiencies in the Chl d-utilizing cyanobacterium, Acaryochloris marina. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1827: 255-265. (R)

318. Oh-oka H and Blankenship RE (2013) Green bacteria: Secondary electron donor

(Cytochromes) Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry, 2nd Ed., Lennarz WJ and Lane MD, Eds., Elsevier, Oxford, pps 510-512. (IR).

319. Niedzwiedzki DM, Jiang J, Lo CS and Blankenship RE (2014) Spectroscopic properties of

the chlorophyll a-chlorophyll c2-peridinin-protein-complex (acpPC) from the coral symbiotic dinoflagellate Symbiodinium. Photosynthesis Research 120: 125-39. (R)

320. Tang K-H and Blankenship RE (2013) Photosynthetic electron transport. In Encyclopedia

of Biophysics, GKC Roberts, Ed., Springer, New Delhi, ISBN 978-3-642-16711-9. (IR) 321. Majumder EW, King J and Blankenship RE (2013) Alternative Complex III from

phototrophic bacteria and its electron acceptor auracyanin. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1827: 1383-1391. (R, IR)

322. Orf GS, Tank M, Vogl K, Niedzwiedzki DM, Bryant DA and Blankenship RE (2013)

Spectroscopic insights into the decreased efficiency of chlorosomes containing bacteriochlorophyll f. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1827: 493-501. (R)

323. Bina D and Blankenship RE (2013) Chemical oxidation of the FMO antenna protein from

Chlorobaculum tepidum. Photosynthesis Research 116: 11-19. (R)

324. Blankenship RE and Chen M (2013) Spectral expansion and antenna reduction can

enhance photosynthesis for energy production. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology 17: 457-461. (R, IR)

325. Zhang H, Cui W, Gross ML and Blankenship RE (2013) Native mass spectrometry of

photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes. FEBS Letters 587: 1012-1020. (R, IR) 326. Pšenčík J, Arellano JB, Collins AM, Laurinmäki P, Torkkeli M, Löflund B, Serimaa RE,

Blankenship RE, Tuma R, Butcher SJ (2013) The structural and functional role of carotenoids in chlorosomes. The Journal of Bacteriology 195:1727-1734. (R)

327. Niedzwiedzki DM, Jiang J, Lo CS, Blankenship RE (2013) Low-temperature spectroscopic

properties of the peridinin-chlorophyll-a protein (PCP) complex from the coral symbiotic dinoflagellate Symbiodinium. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 117: 11091−11099. (R)

328. Gao X, Majumder E, Kang Y, Yue H and Blankenship RE (2013) Functional analysis and

expression of the mono-heme-containing cytochrome c subunit of Alternative Complex III in Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Archives Biochemistry and Biophysics 535: 197-204. (R)

329. Orf GS and Blankenship RE (2013) Chlorosome antenna complexes from green

photosynthetic bacteria. Photosynthesis Research 116: 315-331. (R) 330. Adams PG, Cadby AJ, Robinson B, Tsukatani Y, Wen J, Blankenship RE, Bryant DA,

Hunter CN (2013) Comparison of the physical characteristics of chlorosomes from three different phyla of phototrophic bacteria. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1827: 1235-1244. (R)

331. Blankenship, RE, Musick J, Cooley J, Dutcher S and Govindjee (2013) An invitation to the

16th International Congress on Photosynthesis Research in 2013: Opportunities and Challenges in the 21st Century. Photosynthesis Research 115: 215-218. (IR)

332. Liu H, Zhang H, Niedzwiedzki DM, Prado M, He G, Gross ML and Blankenship RE (2013)

Phycobilisomes supply excitations to both photosystems in a megacomplex in cyanobacteria. Science 342: 1104-1107. (R)

333. King JD, McIntosh CL, Halsey CM, Lada BM, Niedzwiedzki DM, Cooley JW and

Blankenship RE (2013) Metalloproteins diversified—The auracyanins are a family of cupredoxins that stretch the spectral and redox limits of blue copper proteins. Biochemistry 52: 8267−8275. (R)

334. Henson WR, Shah VB, Lakin G, Chadha T, Liu H, Blankenship RE, Biswas P (2013)

Production and performance of a Photosystem I-based solar cell using nano-columnar TiO2. 39th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference Proceedings, pp. 2705-2709. (CP)

335. Shah VB, Lakin G, Orf GS, Blankenship, RE and Biswas P (2013) Biomimetic approach to synthesize sensitizers for hybrid solar cells. 39th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference Proceedings, pp. 1084-1088. (CP)

336. Blankenship RE (2014) Molecular Mechanisms of Photosynthesis, 2nd Ed. Wiley-

Blackwell, Oxford, UK. ISBN 978-1-4051-8975-0 (B) 337. Niedzwiedzki DM, Orf GS, Tank M, Vogl K, Bryant DA and Blankenship RE (2014)

Photophysical properties of the excited states of bacteriochlorophyll f in solvents and in chlorosomes. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 118: 2295-2305. (R)

338. David L, Prado M, Blankenship RE, Arteni A, Elmlund DA and Adir N (2014) Structural

studies show energy transfer within stabilized phycobilisomes independent of the mode of rod-core assembly. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1837: 385-395. (R)

339. Herascu N, Kell A, Acharya K, Jankowiak R, Blankenship RE and Zazubovich V (2014)

Modeling of various optical spectra in the presence of uncorrelated excitation energy transfer in dimers and trimers with weak inter-pigment coupling. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 118: 2302-2040 (R)

340. Kell A, Acharya K, Blankenship RE and Jankowiak R (2014) Destabilization in the Fenna-

Matthews-Olson complex of Chlorobaculum tepidum. Photosynthesis Research 120: 323-329. (R)

341. Orf GS, Niedzwiedzki DM and Blankenship RE (2014) Intensity dependence of the

excited state lifetime and triplet conversion yield in the FMO antenna protein. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 118: 2058-2069. (R)

342. Zhang H, Niedzwiedzki DM, Liu H, Prado M, Jiang J, Gross ML and Blankenship RE (2014)

The molecular mechanism of orange carotenoid protein-mediated photoprotection in cyanobacteria. Biochemistry 53: 13-19. (R)

343. McIntosh C and Blankenship RE (2014) Photosynthesis. In: Encyclopedia of Inorganic

and Bioinorganic Chemistry, R Scott, Ed., John Wiley and Sons, Chichester. DOI: 10.1002/9781119951438.eibc0177.pub2. 27 pps. (R, IR)

344. Blankenship RE, Frank HA and Niederman RA (2014) Introduction to accompany the

special issue on light harvesting. Photosynthesis Research 121: 1. (CP) 345. Niedzwiedzki DM, Liu H, Chen M and Blankenship RE (2014) Excited state properties of

chlorophyll f in organic solvents at ambient and cryogenic temperatures. Photosynthesis Research 121: 25-34. (R)

346. Hartzler D, Niedzwiedzki DM, Bryant DA, Blankenship RE, Pushkar Y and Savikhin S

(2014) Triplet excited state energies and phosphorescence spectra of (bacterio)chlorophylls. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 118: 7221–7232. (R)

347. Carey A-M, Hacking K, Picken N, Honkanen S, Kelly S, Niedzwiedzki DM, Blankenship RE,

Shimizu Y, Hikabe H, Wang-Otomo Z-Y and Cogdell RJ (2014) Characterisation of the LH2 spectral variants produced by the photosynthetic purple sulphur bacterium Allochromatium vinosum. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1837: 1849-1860. (R)

348. Jiang J, Zhang H, Orf G, Lu Y, Xu W, Harrington LB, Liu H, Lo CS and Blankenship RE

(2014) Chlorophyll a/c2-peridinin proteins assemble into trimers in the dinoflagellate Symbiodinium. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1837: 1904-1912. (R)

349. Zhang Y, Majumder E L-W, Yue H, Blankenship RE, and Gross ML (2014) Analysis of

diheme cytochrome c by hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry and homology modeling. Biochemistry 53: 5619-5630. (R)

350. Niedzwiedzki DN, Liu H and Blankenship RE (2014) Excited state properties of 3’-

hydroxyechinenone in solvents and in the orange carotenoid protein from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 118: 6141–6149. (R)

351. He G, Zhang H, King JD and Blankenship RE (2014) Structural analysis of the

homodimeric reaction center complex from the photosynthetic green sulfur bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum. Biochemistry 53: 4924-4930. (R)

352. Liu H, Zhang H, King JD, Wolf N, Prado M, Gross ML, and Blankenship RE (2014) Mass

spectrometry footprinting reveals the structural rearrangements of cyanobacterial orange carotenoid protein upon light activation. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1837: 1955-1963. (R)

353. Jez JM and Blankenship RE (2014) Lights, X-rays, oxygen! Cell 158: 701-703. (IR) 354. King JD, Harrington L, Lada BM, He G, Cooley JW and Blankenship RE (2014) Site-

directed mutagenesis of the highly perturbed copper site of auracyanin D. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 564: 237-243. (R)

355. King JD, Liu H, He G, Orf GS and Blankenship RE (2014) Chemical activation of the

cyanobacterial orange carotenoid protein. FEBS Letters 588: 4561-4565. (R) 356. Blankenship RE (2015) Photosynthesis: The light reactions. Chapter 7 in: Plant

Physiology and Development, 6th Ed., L Taiz and E Zeiger, Eds., Sinauer Publishing, pps 171-202. (R, IR)

357. You L, Liu H, Blankenship RE and Tang YJ (2015) Use of Photosystem I as a reporter

protein for 13C-analysis in a coculture containing cyanobacterium and a heterotrophic bacterium. Analytical Biochemistry 477: 86-88. (R)

358. Ort DR, Merchant SS, Alric J, Barkan A, Blankenship RE, Bock R, Croce R, Hanson MR,

Hibberd J, Lindstrom DL, Long SP, Moore TA, Moroney J, Niyogi KK, Parry M, Peralta-

Yahya P, Prince R, Redding K, Spalding M, van Wijk K, Vermaas WFJ, von Caemmerer S, Weber W, Yeates T, Yuan J, Zhu X (2015) Redesigning photosynthesis to sustainably meet global food and bioenergy demand. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 112: 8529-8536. (R, IR)

359. Shah VB, Henson WR, Chadha TS, Lakin G, Liu H, Blankenship RE and Biswas P (2015)

Linker free directed assembly of Photosystem I onto nanostructured TiO2 for biohybrid photo-electrochemical cell. Langmuir 31: 1675–1682. (R)

360. Kihara S, Hartzler D, Orf GS, Blankenship RE and Savikhin S (2015) Triplet energy

transfer in the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 119: 5765-5772. (R)

361. Cui W, Zhang H, Blankenship RE and Gross ML (2015) Electron-capture dissociation and

ion mobility for characterization of the hemoglobin protein assembly. Protein Science 24: 1325-1132. (R)

362. He G, Niedzwiedzki DM, Orf GS, Zhang H and Blankenship RE (2015) Dynamics of Energy

and electron transfer in the FMO-reaction center complex from the phototrophic green sulfur bacterium Chlorobaculum tepidum. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 119: 8321−8329. (R)

363. Jiang J, Zhang H, Lu X, Lu Y, Cuneo MJ, O’Neill HM, Urban V, Lo CS, Blankenship RE

(2015) Oligomerization state and pigment binding strength of the peridinin-Chl a-protein. FEBS Letters 589: 2713-2719. (R)

364. Blankenship RE (2015) Structural and functional dynamics of photosynthetic antenna

complexes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 112: 13751–13752. (IR)

365. Majumder EL-W, Olsen JD, Qian P, Collins AM, Hunter CN and Blankenship RE (2016)

Supramolecular organization of photosynthetic complexes in membranes of Roseiflexus castenholzii. Photosynthesis Research, 127: 117-130. (R)

366. Majumder ELW and Blankenship RE (2016) The diversity of photosynthetic

cytochromes. In: Cytochrome Complexes: Evolution, Structures, Energy Transduction, and Signaling, W Cramer and T Kallas, Eds., Springer, Dordrecht. Advances in Photosynthesis and Respiration, Vol. 41, pps 25-50. (IR)

367. Lu Y, Zhang H, Cui W, Saer R, Liu H, Gross ML, and Blankenship RE (2015) Top-down

mass spectrometry analysis of membrane-bound light-harvesting complex 2 from Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Biochemistry, 54: 7261-7271. (R)

368. Zhang H, Liu H, Blankenship RE and Gross ML (2016) Isotope-encoded carboxyl group

footprinting for mass spectrometry-based protein conformational studies. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry 27: 178-181. (R)

369. Kavadiya S, Chadha TS, Liu H, Shah VB, Blankenship RE and Biswas P (2016) Directed

assembly of thylakoid membrane on nanostructured TiO2 for a photo-electrochemical cell. Nanoscale 8: 1868-1872. (R)

370. Zhang H, Liu H, Lu Y, Wolf NR, Gross ML and Blankenship RE (2016) Native mass

spectrometry and ion mobility characterize the orange carotenoid protein functional domains. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1857: 734-739. (R)

371. Liu H, Zhang H, Orf GS, Lu Y, Jiang J, King JD, Wolf NR, Gross ML and Blankenship RE

(2016) Dramatic domain rearrangements of the cyanobacterial orange carotenoid protein upon photoactivation. Biochemistry 55: 1003-1009. (R)

372. Yoneda A, Wittmann BJ, King JD, Blankenship RE, Dantas G (2016) Transcriptomic

analysis illuminates genes involved in chlorophyll synthesis after nitrogen starvation in Acaryochloris sp. CCMEE 5410. Photosynthesis Research 129: 171-182. (R)

373. Niedzwiedzki DM, Tronina T, Liu H, Staleva H, Komenda J, Sobotka R, Blankenship RE,

and Polívka T (2016) Carotenoid-induced non-photochemical quenching in the cyanobacterial chlorophyll synthase-HliC/D complex. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1857: 1430-1439. (R)

374. Saer R, Orf GS, Lu X, Zhang H, Myles D and Robert E. Blankenship RE (2016)

Perturbation of Bacteriochlorophyll molecules in Fenna-Matthews-Olson protein complexes through mutagenesis of cysteine residues. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1857: 1455-1463. (R)

375. Orf GS, Saer R, McIntosh CL, Zhang H, Niedzwiedzki DM and Blankenship RE (2016)

Reactive cysteine residues gate energy transfer in the FMO complex from Chlorobaculum tepidum. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 113: E4486–E4493. (R)

376. Magdaong NCM, Niedzwiedzki DM, Goodson C and Blankenship RE (2016) Carotenoid-

to-bacteriochlorophyll energy transfer in the LH1-RC core complex of a Bacteriochlorophyll b-containing purple photosynthetic bacterium Blastochloris viridis. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 120: 5159-5171. (R)

377. Kell A, Blankenship RE, and Jankowiak R (2016) Effect of spectral density shapes on the

excitonic structure and dynamics of the Fenna-Matthews-Olson trimer from Chlorobaculum tepidum. Journal of Physical Chemistry A 120: 6146–6154. (R)

378. Lu Y, Zhang H, Niedzwiedzki DM, Jiang J, Blankenship RE, and Gross ML (2016) Fast

photochemical oxidation of proteins maps the topology of intrinsic membrane proteins: Light-harvesting complex 2 in a nanodisc. Analytical Chemistry 88: 8827-8834. (R)

379. Niedzwiedzki DM, Hunter CN and Blankenship RE (2016) Evaluating the nature of so-called S*-state feature in transient absorption of carotenoids in light-harvesting complex 2 (LH2) from purple photosynthetic bacteria. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 120: 11123–11131. (R)

380. Khadka B, Adeolu M, Blankenship RE and Gupta RS (2017) Novel insights into the origin

of photosynthetic reaction centers I and II based on conserved indels in the core proteins. Photosynthesis Research 131: 159-171. (R)

381. Zhang H, Harrington LB, Lu Y, Prado M, Saer R, Rempel D, Blankenship RE and Gross ML

(2017) Native mass spectrometry characterizes the photosynthetic reaction center complex from the purple bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides. Journal American Society of Mass Spectrometry 28: 87-95. (R)

382. Mendez DL, Babbitt SE, King J, D’Alessandro J, Blankenship RE, Mirica LM, Kranz RG

(2017) Engineered holocytochrome c synthases that biosynthesize new cytochromes c. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 114: 2235-2240. (R)

383. Lu Y, Liu H, Saer R, Zhang H, Meyer C, Li VL, Shi L, King JD, Gross ML, Blankenship RE

(2017) Native mass spectrometry analysis of oligomerization states of FRP and OCP: two proteins involved in the cyanobacterial photoprotection cycle. Biochemistry 56: 160-166. (R)

384. Andreoni A, Lin S, Liu H, Blankenship RE, Yan H and Woodbury NW (2017) OCP as a

control element in an antenna system based on a DNA nanostructure. Nano Letters 17: 1174-1180. (R)

385. Saer RG, Stadnytskyi V, Magdaong NC, Goodson C, Savikhin S and Blankenship RE

(2017) Probing the excitonic landscape of Chlorobaculum tepidum Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) antenna complex through site-directed mutagenesis. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1858: 288-296. (R)

386. Baker J, Riester CJ, Skinner B, Newell A, Swingley WD, Madigan MT, Jung D, Asao M,

Chen M, Loughlin P, Pan H, Lin S, Li N, Shaw J, Prado M, Sherman C, Tang J, Blankenship RE, Zhao T, Lu Y-K, Touchman JW, and Sattley WM (2017) Draft genome sequence of Rhodoferax antarcticus ABT, a psychrophilic purple nonsulfur bacterium from an Antarctic microbial mat. Microorganisms, 5(1): 8 16 pps. (R)

387. Magdaong NCM, Saer RG, Niedzwiedzki DM and Blankenship RE (2017) Ultrafast

spectroscopic investigation of energy transfer in site-directed mutants of Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) complex from Chlorobaculum tepidum. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 121: 4700−4712. (R)

388. Lu Y, Liu H, Saer R, Li VL, Zhang H, Shi L, Goodson C, Gross ML, and Blankenship RE

(2017) A molecular mechanism for non-photochemical quenching in cyanobacteria. Biochemistry 56: 2812-2823. (R)

389. Blankenship RE (2017) How cyanobacteria went green. Science 355: 1372-1373. (IR) 390. Saer R and Blankenship RE (2017) Light-harvesting in phototrophic bacteria: structure

and function. Biochemical Journal 474: 2107-2131. (R, IR) 391. Orf GS, Collins AM, Niedzwiedzki DM, Tank M, Thiel V, Kell A, Bryant DA, Montaño G

and Blankenship RE (2017) Polymer-chlorosome nanocomposites consisting of nonnative combinations of self-assembling bacteriochlorophyll. Langmuir 33: 6427-6438. (R)

392. Niedzwiedzki DM, Swainsbury DJK, Martin EC, Hunter CN and Blankenship RE (2017)

Investigating the nature of the S*-excited state feature of carotenoids in light harvesting complex 1 from purple photosynthetic bacteria. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 121: 7571-7585. (R)

393. Valleau S, Stüder R, Häse F, Kreisbeck C, Saer R, Blankenship RE, Shaknovicha E, and

Aspuru-Guzik A (2017) Evolutionary study and ancestral reconstruction of the Fenna-Matthews-Olson complex. ACS Central Science 3: 1086-1095. (R)

394. Majumder EL-W, Wolf BM, Liu H, Berg RH, Timlin JA, Chen M and Robert E. Blankenship

RE (2017) Subcellular pigment distribution is altered under far red light acclimation in cyanobacteria that contain chlorophyll f. Photosynthesis Research, 134: 183-192. (R)

395. Khmelnitskiy A, Kell A, Reinot T, Saer RG, Blankenship RE and Jankowiak R (2018)

Energy landscape of the intact and destabilized FMO antennas from C. tepidum and the L122Q mutant: Low temperature spectroscopy and modeling study. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1859: 165-173. (R)

396. Wolf BM, Magdaong NM, Roth R, Goodenough U and Blankenship RE (2018)

Characterization of a newly isolated freshwater Eustigmatophyte alga capable of utilizing far-red light as its sole light source. Photosynthesis Research 135: 177-189. (R)

397. Liu H, Lu Y, Wolf BM, Saer R, Orf GS, King JD and Blankenship RE (2018) Photoactivation

and relaxation studies on the cyanobacterial OCP in the presence of copper ion. Photosynthesis Research 135: 143-147. (R)

398. Chen M and Blankenship RE (2018) Pigments: general properties and biosynthesis. In:

Light Harvesting in Photosynthesis. Roberta Croce; Rienk van Grondelle; Herbert van Amerongen; Ivo van Stokkum, Eds. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, pp 3-20. (IR)

399. Maiuri M, Ostroumov EE, Saer RG, Blankenship RE and Scholes GD (2018) Coherent

wavepackets in the FMO complex are robust to excitonic-structure perturbations by mutagenesis. Nature Chemistry 10:177-183. (R)

400. Hernández-Prieto MA, Postier B, Blankenship RE and Chen M (2018) Far-red light promotes biofilm formation but not chlorophyll d biosynthesis in the cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina. Environmental Microbiology 20: 535–545. (R)

401. Allodi MA, Otto JP, Sohail SH, Saer RG, Wood RE, Rolczynski BS, Massey SC, Ting P-C,

Blankenship RE and Engel GS (2018) Reactive oxygen species affect ultrafast exciton transport in photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 9: 89–95. (R)

402. Magdaong NCM and Blankenship RE (2018) Photoprotective excited state quenching

mechanisms in diverse photosynthetic organisms. Journal of Biological Chemistry 293: 5018-5025. (R, IR)

403. Ogren JI, Tong AL, Gordon SC, Chenu A, Lu Y, Blankenship RE, Cao J and Schlau-Cohen

GS (2018) Impact of the lipid bilayer membrane on energy transfer kinetics in the photosynthetic protein LH2. Chemical Science 9: 3095-3104. (R)

404. Blankenship RE, Brune DC and Olson J (2018) Remembering John M. Olson (1929-2017).

Photosynthesis Research 137: 161-169. (IR) 405. Stadnytskyi, V, Orf GS, Bankenship RE and Savikhin S (2018) Shot-noise limited time-

resolved circular dichroism pump-probe spectrometer. Review of Scientific Instruments 89: 033184. (R)

406. Xin Y, Shi Y, Niu T, Wang Q, Niu W, Huang X, Ding W, Yang L, Blankenship RE, Xu X, and

Sun F (2018) Cryo-EM structure of the RC-LH core complex from an early branching photosynthetic prokaryote. Nature Communications 9: 1568. (R)

407. Tang JK-H and Blankenship RE (2018) Photosynthetic Electron Transport. Enclyclopedia

of Biophysics, 2nd Ed., G. C. K Roberts, Ed., Springer, The Netherlands. (IR) 408. Khmelnitskiy A, Saer R, Blankenship RE and Jankowiak R (2018) On the Excitonic Energy

Landscape of the Y16F Mutant of the Chlorobium tepidum FMO Complex: High resolution spectroscopic and modeling studies. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 122: 3734-3743. (R)

409. Lu Y, Goodson C, Blankenship RE, and Gross ML (2018) Primary and higher order

structure of the reaction center from the purple phototrophic bacterium Blastochloris viridis: A test for native mass spectrometry. Journal of Proteome Research 17: 1615-1623. (R)

410. Bar-Zvi S, Lahav A, Harris D, Niedzwiedzki DM, Blankenship RE and Adir N (2018)

Structural heterogeneity leads to functional homogeneity in A. marina phycocyanin. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1859: 544-553. (R)

411. Niedzwiedzki DM, Gardiner AT, Blankenship RE and Cogdell RJ (2018) Energy transfer in purple bacterial photosynthetic units from cells grown in various light intensities. Photosynthesis Research 137: 389-402. (R)

412. Niedzwiedzki DM and Blankenship RE (2018) Excited-state properties of the central-cis

isomer of the carotenoid peridinin. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 649: 29-36. (R)

413. Shah VB, Ferris C, Orf G, Kavadiya S, Ray J, Jun Y-S, Lee B, Blankenship RE, and Biswas P

(2018) Supramolecular self-assembly of bacteriochlorophyll c molecules in aerosolized droplets to synthesize biomimetic chlorosomes. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B 185: 161-168. (R)

414. Magdaong NCM, Niedzwiedzki DM, Saer RG, Goodson C, and Blankenship RE (2018)

Excitation energy transfer kinetics and efficiency in phototrophic green sulfur bacteria. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1859: 1180-1190. (R)

415. Govindjee and Blankenship RE (2018) Martin D. Kamen, Whose Discovery of 14C

Changed Plant Biology as Well as Archaeology. Plantae https://community.plantae.org/path/5105915226511902577.

416. Saer RG, Schultz R, and Blankenship RE (2019) The influence of quaternary structure on

the stability of Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) antenna complexes. Photosynthesis Research 140: 39-49. (R)

417. Niedzwiedzki DM, Bar-Zvi S, Blankenship RE, and Adir N (2019) Excitation energy

migration in phycobilisomes from the cyanobacterium Acaryochloris marina. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1860: 286-296. (R)

418. Squires AH, Dahlberg PD, Magdaong NCM, Liu H, Blankenship RE, and Moerner WE

(2019) Identification of two distinct binding sites for Orange Carotenoid Protein on the phycobilisome by single-molecule trapping and spectroscopy. Nature Communications 10: 1172. (R)

419. Lu X, Selvaraj B, Ghimire-Rijal S, Orf GS, Blankenship RE, Meilleur F, Cuneo MJ and

Myles DAA (2019) Neutron and X-ray analysis of the Fenna-Matthews-Olson photosynthetic antenna complex from Prosthecochloris aestuarii. Acta Crystallographica F 71: 171-175. (R)

420. Niedzwiedzki DM, Wolf, BM, and Blankenship RE (2019) Excitation Energy Transfer in

the Far-red Absorbing Violaxanthin/Vaucheriaxanthin Chlorophyll a Complex from the Eustigmatophyte Alga FP5. Photosynthesis Research 140: 337-354. (R)

421. Liu H, Weisz DA, Zhang MM, Cheng M, Zhang B, Zhang H, Gerstenecker GS, Pakrasi HB,

Gross ML, and Blankenship RE (2019) Phycobilisomes Harbor FNRL in Cyanobacteria. mBio 10: e00669-19 (R)

422. Wolf BM and Blankenship RE (2019) Far-Red Light Acclimation in Diverse Oxygenic

Photosynthetic Organisms. Photosynthesis Research In Press. (R) 423. Niedzwiedzki DM, Liu H, and Blankenship RE (2019) Excitation Energy Transfer in Intact

CpcL-phycobilisome from Synechocystis sp PCC. 6803. Journal of Physical Chemistry B. 123: 4695-4704(R)

424. Ho M-Y, Niedzwiedzki DM, MacGregor-Chatwin C, Gerstenecker G, Hunter CN,

Blankenship RE, and Bryant DA (2019) Extensive remodeling of the photosynthetic apparatus alters energy transfer among photosynthetic complexes when cyanobacteria acclimate to far-red light. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 1860: 148064. (R)

425. Lou W, Haijun Liu H, Wolf BM, Blankenship RE (2019) The role of copper in OCP-related

photoprotection in cyanobacteria. Biochemistry 58: 3109-3115. (R) 426. Wolf BM, Barnhart-Dailey MC, Timlin JA, and Blankenship RE (2019) Photoacclimation

in a newly isolated Eustigmatophyte alga capable of growth using far-red light. Submitted. (R)

427. Irgen-Gioro S, Gururangan K, Goodson C, Blankenship RE, and Harel E (2019) Electronic

Coherence Lifetimes of the Fenna-Matthews-Olson Complex and Light Harvesting Complex II. Submitted. (R)

428. Weisz DA, Johnson VM, Niedzwiedzki DM, Shinn MK, Liu H, Klitzke CF, Gross ML,

Blankenship RE, Lohman TM, Pakrasi HB (2019) A novel chlorophyll protein complex in the repair cycle of Photosystem II. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 116: 21907-21913. (R)

429. Liu H and Blankenship RE (2019) The Higher Order Structure of Photosynthetic Pigment

Protein Complexes in Oxygenic Photosynthesis. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. 1860: 148079. (IR, R)

430. Lou W, Niedzwiedzki DM, Blankenship RE, and Liu H (2019) Binding of Red Form of the Orange Carotenoid Protein to Phycobilisome Is Not Sufficient for Its Function-- Evidence of a Third State of OCP in Cyanobacterial Non-photochemical Quenching. Submitted. (R)

431. Jassas M, Goodson C, Blankenship RE, Jankowiak R, and Kell A (2019) On Excitation

Energy Transfer within the Baseplate BChl a–CsmA Complex of Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Submitted. (R)

432. King JD, Kottapalli JS, and Blankenship RE (2019) A binary chimeragenesis approach

reveals long-range tuning of copper proteins. Submitted. (R)

433. Shi Y, Xin Y, Wang C, Tang W, Blankenship RE, Sun F, and Xu X (2019) 3.3 Å Cryo-EM structure of the photosynthetic Alternative Complex III from Roseiflexus castenholzii reveals a redox-coupled proton translocation mechanism. Manuscript in Preparation. (R)

434. Kiang N, Parenteau, MN, Swingley W, Wolf BM, Brodderick J, Blankenship RE, Repeta D,

Detweiler A, Bebout LE, Schladweiler J, Hearne C, Kelly ET, Miller KA, Lindemann R (2019) Isolation and characterization of a chlorophyll d-containing cyanobacterium from the site of the 1943 discovery of chlorophyll d. Manuscript in Preparation.

435. Sparks WB, Parenteau MN, Blankenship RE, Germer TA, Patty L, Telesco C, Meadows VS

(2020) Spectropolarimetry of primitive phototrophs as global surface biosignatures. Manuscript in Preparation.

436. Liu H, Gross MR and Blankenship RE (2020) Mass spectrometry applications in

photosynthetic systems. Manuscript in Preparation.

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